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bunt Name Meaning and History

  1. German: from Middle High German bunt, a term which originally described black and white coloration, specifically of a fur. Later, by extension, it came to denote the fur itself. It was probably applied as a nickname, but in which sense is no longer clear, and the matter is further complicated by the fact that in some areas bunt meant ‘multicolored’ (its modern meaning is ‘colorful’).
  2. English: probably a metonymic occupational name for a maker of sieves, from Middle English bonte, bunte.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bunt Families in the US in 1920
Number of bunt families
 31-59
 11-30		 1-10
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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