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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : probably an occupational name for a collector or seller of stalks of ampelodesmo, a graminaceous plant.
  • Czech and Slovak (Buša) : probably from a reduced form of the personal name Bohuslav.
  • Hungarian : nickname from busa ‘stocky’, ‘big-headed’.

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