Budde Family Name and Heraldry

Arms linked to Budd and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Family name meaning

It is easy to miss Budde in an index if you only search for Budd. Taken at its root, Budde points to “Plump, bud”.

The extra “e” in Budde is a spelling habit rather than a different name. The same family of names includes Bud. About 2,910 people in the United States were recorded as Budde in 2010, placing it 10,942 on the national list.

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