German: habitational name from a place near the Czech border
named Buchbach, pronounced and also recorded as Buchba, from a
variant of which the surname arose.German: habitational name from
a place named Buchte in Brandenburg.In eastern Germany, possibly
from the Sorbian personal name Buchta, ultimately a derivative
of Boguslav.Czech, Slovak, Polish, and eastern German: from
buchta ‘baked yeast dumpling’ (see Buchtel 2).Czech: possibly from a derivative of Budislav or some other
personal name formed with budi- ‘to awaken or inspire’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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