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Answer - IndiaFor some, the name derived from the surname "BUKSH," prounounced Bucksh,

which in the Hindi and Urdu language means "to bless" something or someone.

The reason it has different spelling, or more inportantly its pronounciation, (from Hindi to English) is because, many Inidans who came to Europe in the early 1950s and late 1960s were unable to write in English. When they arrived they were asked to say their names and whoever was at then equivalent of passport control desks wrote their names in English the best they could.

Answer - ItalyThe Italian version of the surname 'Bux' is derived from the name of a town in Italy called Buxentum. It was a Greek colony during the Magna Graecia period. Then the Italians took over and granted the land to discharged soldiers and others in an effort to populate the land.

The people who came from this town to other places took the surname Bux.

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