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buch Name Meaning and History

  1. German: topographic name for someone who lived by a beech tree or beech wood, from Middle High German buoche, or a habitational name from any of the numerous places so named with this word, notably in Bavaria and Württemberg. (The beech tree is the main tree in the forests of central Europe.)
  2. Danish: from German (see 1) or a nickname from buk ‘he goat’.
  3. Indian (Gujarat and Bombay city): Hindu (Brahman) and Parsi name of unknown meaning.
  4. Indian (Panjab): Sikh name based on the name of a Jat clan.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of buch Families in the US in 1920
Number of buch families
 111-220
 38-110		 1-37
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 45 - Messages: 96
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Caroline Buch (1853-1902) rickobst 1
Buchs in Pittsburgh karenkershenstein 0
from Buff to Buch Loretta 2
Guerdon, Melvin & Everett Buch (b. in 1920s) sons of Henry/Lillian, of Lafayette Co., WI margerice1 0
Michael Buch/Germany Barbara Saltzery MaryLee_1 7
Buch/Bach in Brownhelm Township, OH Paul Bach 0
Buch Family in Pittsburg, PA. Mary Logsdon 2
Buch, M. in 1929 Richmond, VA yearbook sassytazzy 0
Adam Buch Beth Hatch 13
Cuyahoga County Ohio Buch's Dale 0
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