Buggin Family History

Perhaps an altered pronunciation of Burgin or Burgoyne, though neither name is well recorded in Gloucs. Perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English *buggin *boggin, a diminutive of bugge ‘hobgoblin, bogey, scarecrow’ and on record in post-medieval N England and Scotland.

Compare the synonymous boggart, which was also common in post-medieval N England but had a wider distribution, possibly as far south as Devon. See English Dialect Dictionary.