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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a personal name, a much altered variant of Matthäus (see Matthew).
  • French : habitational name, with the preposition de ‘from’, for someone from any of various places named Bus (from a regional form of bois ‘wood’) in Eure, Pas-de-Calais, and Somme.

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