Origin and popularity of the name BUNT

Origin

Bunt : 1: English: from an unrecorded Middle English bunt ‘something swollen’ related to modern English bunt ‘swelling bag-like end of a net or sail’ and to Middle English bunting ‘small bird corn bunting’. The name could have been a nickname given to a plump person. Derivation from Middle English bonte bunte ‘sieve’ is formally also possible but less likely.2: English: alternatively from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Bunt(e) Old English Bunt(a) perhaps derived from the same sense as in 1 above.3: Dutch (mainly Van de Bunt): habitational name for someone who lived at a place called after its vegetation which consisted of bunt grass i.e. a meadow with tufts of a tough kind of grass.4: In some cases also German: from Middle High German bunt a term which originally described black and white coloration specifically of a fur. Later by extension it came to denote the fur itself. It was probably applied as a nickname but in which sense is no longer clear and the matter is further complicated by the fact that in some areas bunt meant ‘multicolored’ (its modern meaning is ‘colorful’). This surname is very rare in Germany.

Band : 1: English German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a maker of hoops and bands etc. from Middle English band bond Middle High German Middle Low German bant German Band ‘hoop metal band fetter shackle’ i.e. something used for tying or binding.2: English: variant of Bond.3: German: from a pet form of Bernhard.4: Dutch: habitational name from any of several places called (De) Band or Bant. These toponyms have been associated with the meanings bant bunt ‘gray hair-grass’ or with band bant ‘strip of land’.

Buntrock : German: from Middle Low German bunt ‘striped or piebald fur’ (see Bunt) + rock ‘tunic smock’ hence presumably a nickname for an habitual wearer of such an item of clothing or possibly a metonymic occupational name for a furrier. Alternatively the first element is believed by some to derive from binden ‘to tie’. Compare Bundschuh.

Hegde : Indian (Karnataka): Bunt and Jain name from Kannada heggaḍe Old Kannada pergaḍe meaning ‘chief headman’ (from per ‘great’ + kaḍe ‘end limit’).

Rai : Indian:: 1: (northeastern states): from a personal name based on Hindi rai Sanskrit rājā ‘king’.2: (Karnataka): name found in the Bunt community of coastal Karnataka of unexplained etymology.

Shetty : Indian (Karnataka): name found among the people of the Bunt or Nadava community in coastal Karnataka. It derives from Sanskrit šreṣṭhī a term denoting the head of a mercantile or other guild. Unlike bearers of the cognate names Seth and Setty however the Bunts are not a mercantile community; they are a land-owning and farming class in South Kanara a coastal district of Karnataka. This surname is also found among the Jains of this region.

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