Buenechea

Buenechea is the Spanish spelling of a Basque surname which also occurs in the variants Bonechea, Buonechea, Boenechea and Bonachea. The modern Basque spellings are Buenetxea and Bonetxea.[1] This surname is not common; Buenecheas and Buenetxeas between them number fewer than 100 in the whole of Spain, for the most part located in Gipuzkoa, where diocesan records indicate only around 1000 persons have been born with this name and its variants in the 300-year period 1600–1900. It is made up of the elements "buen, bon" (corruptions of "güen < goen < goien", 'upper') + "etxea" ('house').[2] The name therefore is originally related to "Goyenetch(e)", "Goyenech(e)" and "Go(i)enetxe".

Arms

All indigenous Basques are in theory armigerous. One family has the following blazon: Sobre ondas de azur y plata, un delfin barbelado. Bordura de gules con ocho panelas, de oro. i.e. Wavy azure and argent, a dolphin spiny, bordure gules eight water-lily leaves or.

Notable people

Portrait of Domingo de Boenechea.

References

  1. "Deiturak - Euskaltzaindia". Euskaltzaindia. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
  2. Michelena, Luis (1997). Apellidos Vascos. Donostia: Editorial Txertoa. pp. 87, 96. ISBN 84-7148-008-5.
  3. Estudios genealógicos, heráldicos y nobiliarios en honor de Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent, 1978
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