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.
from a pet form of the Old German personal name
Bodefrit.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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