Given name & surname · also Slavic

Buda

“water”

Buda is a masculine given name, probably from Slavic, ultimately from Latin. It is used in Hungarian and Serbo-Croatian.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Buda probably goes back to Proto-Slavic *voda, meaning “water.”

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Where it comes from

Buda probably comes from Slavic, and ultimately from Latin.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In Serbo-Croatian usage, Buda is a short form of BUDIMIR. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Buda is a short form of Budislav.

Buda’s family of names

In Serbo-Croatian usage, Buda is a short form of BUDIMIR. Buda is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Буда. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Buda is a short form of Budislav.

Walk Buda’s family in the name graph

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Nicknames & forms 2

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

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Sibling ideas

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