Where did the last name "Bunn" originate from?

Question

My father's aunt says it originated from Germany, but I would like to hear everyone else's opinion.

Answer 1

It is possibly a form of Bunde:

North German: status name for a farmer Middle Low German bunde, bunne, related to Danish, Swedish bonde ‘free peasant’ (see Bond).

German (Bünde): topographic name from Old High German biunda ‘enclosed fertile pasture’ (modern German Bünde, Beunte), a derivative of biwenden ‘to bend or weave’, with reference to the practice of making fences from woven branches. There are many different local forms and communal implications concerning the use of the land.

North German (Bünde): habitational name for someone from a place in Westphalia, so named with the same word as 2.

It can also be from English  from Bone.

To find out which you are,  you will have to do the research on your history.

Answer 2

From your ***

Answer 3

Surname: Bunn

This interesting name is of Old French origin, and derives from the Old French "bon" meaning "good", and was originally given as a nickname to an upright or benevolent person. A sizeable group of early European surnames were gradually created from the habitual use of nicknames. These were given in the first instance with reference to a variety of characteristics, such as mental and moral characteristics, or to habits of dress. One Edward le Bon (i.e. "the Good") is recorded in the 1204 Pipe Rolls of Oxfordshire, and a Walter le Bone was listed in the 1296 Subsidy Rolls of Sussex. The spelling "Bonne" appears in the Calendar of Letter Books for Huntingdonshire, dated 1379. On February 17th 1635, the marriage of Jane Bunn and William Iddes was recorded in Climping, Sussex. Thomas Bunn, his wife, Bridgitt, and son, Thomas, aged 1 yr., appear on a muster of the inhabitants in Virginea taken on January 30th 1624; they were among the earliest recorded namebearers to settle in America. Alfred Bunn (1796 - 1860), nicknamed "Poet Bunn" was manager of Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres from 1833 to 1848; he brought out English operas. The family Coat of Arms is described thus: "Silver, on three grieces black, red and blue a cross calvary of the third, in chief two crescents red. Crest - An ostrich's head silver collared red between two palm branches green". The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Rocelin le Bun, which was dated 1255, in the "Hundred Rolls of Wiltshire", during the reign of King Henry 111, known as "The Frenchman", 1216 - 1272.

Bunn    

Last name origins & meanings:

English: variant of Bone

German: perhaps from Bunde

Bone    

Last name origins & meanings:

English (of Norman origin): nickname meaning ‘good’, from Old French bon ‘good’.

English: nickname for a thin man, from Middle English bōn ‘bone’ (Old English bān; compare Bain ).

Hungarian (Bóné): from bóné denoting a particular kind of fishing net, hence a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or perhaps for a maker of such nets.

Bunde    

Last name origins & meanings:

North German: status name for a farmer Middle Low German bunde, bunne, related to Danish, Swedish bonde ‘free peasant’ (see Bond).

German (Bünde): topographic name from Old High German biunda ‘enclosed fertile pasture’ (modern German Bünde, Beunte), a derivative of biwenden ‘to bend or weave’, with reference to the practice of making fences from woven branches. There are many different local forms and communal implications concerning the use of the land.

North German (Bünde): habitational name for someone from a place in Westphalia, so named with the same word as.

Bond  

Last name origins & meanings:

English: status name for a peasant farmer or husbandman, Middle English bonde (Old English bonda, bunda, reinforced by Old Norse bóndi). The Old Norse word was also in use as a personal name, and this has given rise to other English and Scandinavian surnames alongside those originating as status names. The status of the peasant farmer fluctuated considerably during the Middle Ages; moreover, the underlying Germanic word is of disputed origin and meaning. Among Germanic peoples who settled to an agricultural life, the term came to signify a farmer holding lands from, and bound by loyalty to, a lord; from this developed the sense of a free landholder as opposed to a serf. In England after the Norman Conquest the word sank in status and became associated with the notion of bound servitude.

Swedish: variant of Bonde.

Answer 4

sounds Germanic.