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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : probably a habitational name from a place so named near Essen, or a variant of Buhr.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from the common farm name Buer, from the plural of bu ‘booth’, ‘temporary dwelling’ (from Old Norse búð).

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