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Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Buniver clan

Buniver

Family name origin

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...

Last name spellings

  • Buniver
  • Бунивер

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