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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (from Belarus) : metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Bune, of Romance origin, with the addition of the East Slavic suffix -in.
  • Russian : patronymic from Buna, a nickname for a haughty or boring person, from bunet ‘to drone’.

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