German: from a personal name, a much altered variant of
Matthäus (see Matthew).French:
habitational name, with the preposition de ‘from’, for
someone from any of various places named Bus (from a regional form of
bois ‘wood’) in Eure, Pas-de-Calais, and Somme.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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