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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from any of several places in Normandy, France: Boucé in Orne, from which came Robert de Buci mentioned in Domesday Book, Bouce (Manche), or Bucy-le-Long (Aisne). All are named with a Latin personal name Buccius (presumably a derivative of bucca ‘mouth’) + the locative suffix -acum.
  • Altered spelling of German Busse.

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