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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a short form of a personal name, Botthar, formed with Old High German biutan ‘to bid or command’ or boto ‘messenger’.
  • German : variant of Buder.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Puder ‘powder’, most likely a nickname for miller or an apothecary.

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