Family name origins & meanings
- German : habitational name from any of various places named Dornbusch, or a topographic name for someone living by a briar patch or thorn bush, from Middle High German, Middle Low German dorn ‘thorn’ + Middle High German busch, bosch ‘bush’.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Dornbusch ‘thornbush’, ‘briar’ (see 1)