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The buchwald Surname

buchwald Name Meaning and History

  1. German: topographic name for someone who lived by a beech forest, from Middle High German buoche ‘beech’ + walt ‘forest’, or a habitational name from any of numerous minor places so named, mainly in eastern Germany.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name, as in 1, or an ornamental adoption of it.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of buchwald Families in the US in 1920
Number of buchwald families
 19-35
 7-18		 1-6
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Buchwald Jews From Austria-Hungary/Galicia judithscarani 6
Charles and Amelia (Vogel) Buchwald Donita Roberts 6
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