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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech : from a pet form of the personal name Budislav.
  • Czech and Sorbian : nickname from bucek ‘chubby’.
  • Czech and Slovak (Buček) : topographic name from a diminutive of buk ‘beech tree’.
  • Slovenian (Buček) : nickname from buček ‘comic or ludicrous fellow’. It may also be derived from an identical dialect word meaning ‘small jug-like vessel’.

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