Bucko Family History

Slovak (Bučko): topographic name or nickname derived from buk ‘beech tree’ + diminutive suffix -ko. Rusyn (from Slovakia, Vojvodina in Serbia, and Croatia; Bučko): nickname for a noisy person derived from Rusyn (Ukrainian) bucha ‘noise, outcry’; or at least in Slovakia, probably a topographic name or nickname derived from buk ‘beech tree’, hence a cognate of 1 above. However, in Serbia and Croatia it may alternatively be from the South Slavic personal name Bučko (see 3 below).

Compare Buchko and Butchko. Serbian and possibly also Croatian (Bučko): from a pet form of the personal names like Budimir (see Budin). Compare Rusyn name in 2 above.

Slovak, Rusyn (from Slovakia), and Serbian: nickname from Slovak and Serbian bucko ‘small fat man’ or ‘fat child’. Slovak and Rusyn (from Slovakia): from a pet form of the personal name Budislav or its old Slovak variant Buclav (see Buda).

Americanized form of Polish Buczko a cognate of 1 above.