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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place near the Czech border named Buchbach, pronounced and also recorded as Buchba, from a variant of which the surname arose.
  • German : habitational name from a place named Buchte in Brandenburg.
  • In eastern Germany, possibly from the Sorbian personal name Buchta, ultimately a derivative of Boguslav.
  • Czech, Slovak, Polish, and eastern German : from buchta ‘baked yeast dumpling’ (see Buchtel 2).
  • Czech : possibly from a derivative of Budislav or some other personal name formed with budi- ‘to awaken or inspire’.

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