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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Buch, with the addition of Middle High German man ‘man’. In some instances Buch may have been used as a nickname in the sense ‘book’, as an occupational name for a scholar or scribe.

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