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Updated April 16, 2022

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived by a bushy area or thicket, from Middle English bush(e) ‘bush’ (probably from Old Norse buskr, or an unrecorded Old English busc); alternatively, it may derive from Old Norse Buski used as a personal name.
  • Americanized spelling of German Busch.

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