Origin of the name Buniver

At the moment there are two versions on the origin of this family name.

One is brought by the famous Israeli researcher Abraham Ariel. He obtains the family name Buniver (ah) from the distorted Ben Baurch, that is son of Baruch. Ariel says that the variations in the name spelling occured in medieval Europe (in particular in France and Spain).

The second and in our view more convincing version is brought by the researcher-encyclopedist from Paris Alexander Beider in his Dictionary of Jewish names. He claims that the name Buniver came from the name of the shtetl Buniva (Bunyava) that was located in Vladimir region of Odessa area.

This family name is rare and extremely not spread. Those several families we know about are most probably close relatives according to our conjectures. One family lives in Brooklin in New York, and two others - in Saint-Petersburg.