occupational name for a goatherd, Middle English
bukkeman (from Old English bucca ‘he-goat’ + mann
‘man’).occupational name for a scholar or scribe, Middle English
bocman (from Old English boc ‘book’ + mann
‘man’).possibly also a habitational name, a reduced form of
Buckingham or a metathesized form of Bucknam.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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