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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : possibly of Flemish origin, from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Bufo.
  • English : alternatively, perhaps, from a diminutive of Old French bufe, buffe ‘blow’, ‘slap in the face’, hence probably a nickname for a rough or uncouth man.

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