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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Americanized spelling of German Büffel: from late Middle High German büffel ‘buffalo’ (in some areas ‘bull’); the surname may have arisen from a house name or a nickname for a loutish person.
  2. Americanized spelling of German Büffel: from a pet form of the Old German personal name Bodefrit.