Bucher Family History
Bucher Name Meaning
English: variant of Butcher . German and Swiss German (also Bücher): 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 or a habitational name for someone from any of numerous places called Buch. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine). French: occupational name for a woodsman from a derivative of buche ‘log’. Alternatively in Alsace and Lorraine a surname of German origin (see 2 above). Americanized form of Slovenian and Croatian Bučar (see Bucar ).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022