as a Last Name
- 8,847
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Buss
Meaning & Origins
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.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 8,847
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Wisconsin
- has the most people named Buss per capita
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