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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Danish and Swedish : topographic name from busk(e) ‘bush’, or a habitational name from a place in Denmark named Busk.
  • The English surname Busk is not of English origin. The family of this name has been traced to Jacob Hans Busck (died 1755), a wool merchant from Gothenburg, who settled in England in 1712.

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