Boughner: Name changed to Boughner from Buchner for the imigrants from Hesse upon arrival in Philadelphia on the ship Snow Rowand.
Buchner:German topographic name for someone who lived by a beech tree or beech wood, a variant of Buch + the suffix -(n)er denoting an inhabitant, or a habitational name from any of various places called Buchen, for example in Baden (east of Heidelberg).