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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone who lived near a beech wood, from Middle High German buoch ‘beech’ + holz ‘wood’, or a habitational name from a place named Buchholz, of which there are numerous examples, especially in northern Germany.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Buchholz ‘beech wood’ (see 1).

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