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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German and Swiss German : probably from a topographic name for someone living near an enclosure, i.e. a fenced plot such as an orchard, from Middle High German bīzūne ‘enclosure’.
  • South German and Swiss German : habitational name from a place named with this word, in particular one near Balingen, Württemberg.
  • South German and Swiss German : Americanized spelling of Bütz(e) (see Butz 2).

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