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bunce Name Meaning and History

  1. English: unexplained. Perhaps a respelling of Bunts.
  2. Probably an altered spelling of Swiss German Bunz or Bünz, from Alemannic bunz ‘little barrel’, hence a nickname for a short fat man, or of German Banz, or from pet form of an Old High German personal name Bun(n)o, of unexplained etymology.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bunce Families in the US in 1920
Number of bunce families
 81-160
 28-80		 1-27
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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