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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from a pet form the Old English personal name Budda.
  • German : possibly from a shortened form of a North German farm name such as Buddenbrock, Buddendiek, or Buddensiek, all containing the element budde(n) ‘morass’, ‘bog’.

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