The bunyan Surname
bunyan Name Meaning and History
English (Bedfordshire): nickname for someone disfigured by a lump
or hump, from a diminutive of Old French bugne ‘swelling’,
‘protuberance’. The term bugnon was also applied to a kind of
puffed-up fruit tart, and so the surname may also have been a
metonymic occupational name for a baker of these.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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