The Buggy Name: Records, Origin and Blazon

Written in a baptism entry or a ship's list, Buggy usually leads back to Buggie. Name scholars give the meaning as “Descendant of Buga or Bugga (to stoop); one who came from Bugey, in France”.

• Other spellings include Bugay and Bugee.
• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.
• According to the 2010 US Census, the Buggy surname had 348 bearers. That puts it among the top 100,000 US surnames.
• Spelled with “y” instead of “ie”, Buggy shows how the same name was heard and written differently.

Arms associated with the name

Heraldry is personal: arms associated with the Buggie surname were borne by specific families, and sharing the name does not mean sharing the blazon. Get the complete Buggy report, with a museum-style coat of arms.