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Type Surname (from location)
Usage English (American)
Meaning & History
German: variant of Buchwalder, a habitational name for someone from any of various places called Buchwald or Buchwalde in Saxony and Pomerania, meaning 'beech forest'. The surname Buchwalter is very rare in Germany.As of the 2010 census, the surname "Bookwalter" ranks #31,383