Bujwid
Bujwid
Surname list
Bujwid is a Polish-Lithuanian nobility family name belonging to the Ślepowron coat of arms. The archaic feminine form is Bujwidowa (literally meaning "Bujwid's"). In modern time it is a unisex surname. Bujwid is a Polish form of the Lithuanian two-syllable archaic (sur)name Buivydas or Buitvydas — from buitis, būtis being, to be and (iš)vysti to see, literally to be born.[1][2] Modern form is Buividas (Andris Buividas).
The Latvian form of the surname is Buivids. The Russified forms are Buivid or Buyvid.
The surname may refer to:
- Odo Bujwid (1857-1942), Polish bacteriologist
- Kazimiera Bujwidowa (1867-1932), Polish feminist and suffragette
- Ona Danutė Buivydaitė (born 1947), Lithuanian artist and designer.
- Jānis Buivids (1864-1937), a general in the Latvian Army.
- Vita Buivid (born 1962), Russian artist
- Ray Buivid (1915-1972), American football player