Family name origins & meanings
- German : topographic name for someone who lived by a box tree, from Middle High German buhs (see Buchs) + boum ‘tree’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Buchsbaum ‘box tree’ (see 1).
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