English: variant spelling of Butcher.German:
topographic name for someone who lived by a beech tree or beech wood,
from Middle High German buoche ‘beech tree’ + the suffix
-er denoting an inhabitant.German: habitational name for
someone from any of numerous places called Buch.French
(Bûcher): occupational name for a logger or woodsman, from a
derivative of buche ‘log’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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