Updated June 9, 2019

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Herald
  • German : To puff up

Boy name variations

Bud

Bud

+ 180% this year
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Buddy

Buddy

- 9% this year
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Buddie

Buddie

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from an Old English byname, Budde, which was applied to a thickset or plump person. By the Middle English period it had become a common personal name, with derivatives formed with hypocoristic suffixes, Budecok and Budekin. Reaney derives it from Old English budda ‘beetle’.
  • Shortened form of German Budde.
  • John Budd was one of the free planters who assented to the ‘Fundamental Agreement’ of the New Haven Colony on June 4, 1639.