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Surname Etymology and Meaning of BUNYAN

Name meanings and etymologies are often disputed. The information here is compiled from freely available sources, and no claims whatsoever are made for accuracy, either historical or etymological.

(origin: Welsh, Celtic, and Gaelic.) From Bunan, a squat, short person.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

English (Bedfordshire): nickname for someone disfigured by a lump or hump, from a diminutive of Old French bugne ‘swelling’, ‘protuberance’. The term bugnon was also applied to a kind of puffed-up fruit tart, and so the surname may also have been a metonymic occupational name for a baker of these.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)