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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : metonymic occupational name for a beekeeper, from bugno ‘beehive’, from an unattested Celtic word, būnia.
  • Italian : from bugna ‘dressed stone’, ‘ashlar’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a stonemason or possibly a nickname for someone with a protrusion on the forehead.

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