as a Last Name
- 1,343
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Buis
Meaning & Origins
French: from French buis ‘box (tree)’, in any of a number of possible applications. It may have been a topographic name for someone who lived by a box thicket, or a metonymic occupational name for a worker in the wood (see Box).
| 18,269th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,343
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Indiana
- has the most people named Buis per capita
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