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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : status name for a tenant who held a cottage in return for performing certain services, from a derivative Middle High German buode ‘hut’, ‘shack’. Compare Cotter.
  • Jewish (from Poland) : habitational name for someone from Budne, a village in Poland.

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