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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and Czech : nickname from buba ‘fright’.
  • Polish : nickname from bubel ‘unsaleable article’.
  • German : from a Sorbian nickname denoting someone with chubby cheeks. Compare Bucek.
  • German : from a diminutive of Bub.

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