Bugeja

Maltese

Etymology

• From the city and port Bejaia in Algeria.
• Possibly also a Maltese form of Sicilian Bug(g)ea, from Ancient Greek βουκαῖος (boukaîos, “cowherd”) (see βουκόλος (boukólos)).
• Also from Italian (Sicilian and Salentine) bbuggia (“poacher's bag”).

Proper noun

Bugeja

1. a surname

References

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bugeja”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 248.