Frequency: (207)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. German: habitational name for someone from any of numerous places called Buchau (Bavaria) or Bucha (eastern Germany). Alternatively, it may be a topographic name from Middle High German buoche ‘beech tree’.
2. French: perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a woodsman, from buche ‘log’.
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