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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a goatherd, Middle English bukkeman (from Old English bucca ‘he-goat’ + mann ‘man’).
  • English : occupational name for a scholar or scribe, Middle English bocman (from Old English bōc ‘book’ + mann ‘man’).
  • English : possibly also a habitational name, a reduced form of Buckingham or a metathesized form of Bucknam.

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