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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Budner.
  • German : in Swabia, a nickname for a bully, from Buder or Bauder ‘stroke’, ‘blow’, from Middle High German buden ‘to hit’.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name from villages called Buda or Budy, in Ukraine and Belarus.

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