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budd Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from an Old English byname, Budde, which was applied to a thickset or plump person. By the Middle English period it had become a common personal name, with derivatives formed with hypocoristic suffixes, Budecok and Budekin. Reaney derives it from Old English budda ‘beetle’.
  2. Shortened form of German Budde.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of budd Families in the US in 1920
Number of budd families
 115-228
 39-114		 1-38
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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