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buda Name Meaning and History

  1. Polish, Ukrainian, Czech, and Slovak: topographic name from Polish and Ukrainian buda, Czech bouda ‘hut’, ‘cabin’, ‘shack’, ‘stall’.
  2. Polish and Ukrainian: from a short form of any of various compound personal names beginning with Budzi-.
  3. Czech and Slovak: from a short form of the Czech personal name Budislav, composed of the elements budi- ‘to awaken or inspire’ + slav ‘glory’, or of any other personal name formed with budi- as the first element.
  4. Hungarian: habitational name from the name of the old capital of Hungary (see Budai).
  5. Slovenian (western Slovenia): perhaps a derivative from buditi ‘to awaken’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of buda Families in the US in 1920
Number of buda families
 17-31
 6-16		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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