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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Lo Bue) : nickname for a powerfully built man, from bue ‘bull’, a dialect form of bòve (Latin bos, genitive bovis). In some cases it may have been originally a metonymic occupational name for a herdsman.

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