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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a small person, from South German Butz ‘stump’, ‘stub’ or from Middle High German butze ‘poltergeist’.
  • German : nickname for a bully, from an agent derivative of Middle High German butzen ‘to push’.

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