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’.