Buch Family History

German: topographic name for someone who lived by a beech tree or in a beech wood from Middle High German buoche or a habitational name from any of numerous places called with this word notably in Bavaria and Württemberg as well as in Austria and Switzerland.

Danish: from German (see 1 above) or a nickname from Danish buk ‘he-goat’. Czech Slovak and Polish: from the personal name Buch, a short form of Budislav (Polish Budzisław) or some other Slavic name composed with the element bud ‘to inspire’ (from Old Slavic buditi). In some cases it may also be of German origin (see 1 above).

Germanized form of Slovenian Buh: nickname from dialect Buh ‘God’ or from buh ‘strong sudden blow of air’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name or nickname from German Buch or Yiddish bukh ‘book’.

Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Buche ‘beech tree’ (compare 1 above). Indian (Gujarat and Mumbai): Brahmin and Parsi name of unexplained etymology.

Indian (Punjab): Sikh name based on the name of a Jat clan of unexplained etymology.