Bûche

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bûche is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 64K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 133K
  • BEBelgium1 in 206K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,100 people, est.

Sources
147 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Buche in FR France, US United States, BE Belgium and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bûche counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Bûche is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈1,100 est.≈1 in 64K168Buche147
BR Brazil6471 in 327K647——
US United States4341 in 766K445Buche27
CH Switzerland631 in 133K63Buche3
BE Belgium571 in 206K57Buche18

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bûche is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland

    Languages: English, German, French

    Also written Bueche, Buche, Büche, Bueché, Buèche

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Indonesia

    Also written Buche, Buché

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bûche under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Bûche have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Bûche in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled buche.
How common is the name Bûche?
In Brazil, the national register counted 647 people named Bûche, about 1 in 327 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bûche”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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