Buss Family History
Buss Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for a cooper or else a
nickname for a rotund, fat man, from Middle English, Old French
busse ‘cask’, ‘barrel’ (of unknown origin). The word was also
used in Middle English for a type of ship, and the surname may perhaps
have been given to someone who sailed in one. The byname seems to
occur already in Domesday Book, where a Siward Buss, and a John and
Richard Buss are recorded at Brasted in Kent.German and
Swiss German: from a pet form of the personal name Burkhard
(see Burkhart).Danish: variant of Buus.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Buss Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Buss families
 157 - 311  53 - 156 |
 1 - 52  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Buss families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Buss Family Origin
Buss Emigration Information (US)
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Buss Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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