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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and North German : topographic name from Middle Dutch bussch, meaning ‘wood’ rather than ‘bush’, also found in place names, such as ’s Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc).
  • German (Bösch) : see Boesch.
  • Catalan : habitational name from a place named with Bosc(h), from Late Latin boscus ‘wood’.

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