English: topographic name for someone who lived by a bushy area
or thicket, from Middle English bush(e) ‘bush’ (probably from
Old Norse buskr, or an unrecorded Old English busc);
alternatively, it may derive from Old Norse Buski used as a
personal name.Americanized spelling of German
Busch.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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