Bücher
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Buch ‘beech/woods’; often also associated with place names
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/byːçɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bücher is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Switzerland it is the 35th most common surname.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 780(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 7.3K
- DEGermany≈1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bücher itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 442 (measured from records)
- 1 in 780 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 named Butcher, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Butcher in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 2 more and Bucher in DE Germany, CH Switzerland, AT Austria.
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(measured from records)
from Buch ‘beech/woods’; often also associated with place names
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bücher 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Butcher | 9 |
| US United States | — | 22,978as Butcher | 1 in 14K | 23K | Butcher | 442 |
| GB United Kingdom | #432 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | listed | Butcher | 255 |
| CH Switzerland | #35 | 10,770 | 1 in 780 | 11K | Bucher | 114 |
| DE Germany | #815 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Bucher | 136 |
| AU Australia | #579 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | 1 | Butcher | 177 |
| AT Austria | #475 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Bucher | 65 |
| NZ New Zealand | #597 | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Butcher | 89 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Bücher is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Buch
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Wohnstätten-/Herkunftsname zu mhd. buoche/buoch 'Buche, Buchenwald'; zeigt ü/ue-Varianz aus uo/üe. 709 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Deutscher Familienname; Schreibvariante mit u/ü-Vokalismus in der Bucher/Buchner/Bücher/Büchner-Reihe; 709 Namensträger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Johann Bücherb. 1721DEGerman author and theologian
- Wilhelm Bücherb. 1822DEGerman-Austrian architect
- Karl Bücherb. 1847DEGerman economist and economic historian (1847–1930)
- Hermann Bücherb. 1882DEGerman diplomat (1882-1951)
- Theodor Bücherb. 1914DEGerman biochemist (1914–1997)
- Oliver Bücherb. 1961DEGerman association football player
- Norman Bücherb. 1978DEGerman author
- Chiara Bücherb. 2003DEGerman association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 13 | #50,156 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bücher mean, and where does it come from?
- from Buch ‘beech/woods’; often also associated with place names Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Bücher?
- A machine transcription gives /byːçɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Bücher have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 117 thousand people named Butcher in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bücher most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bücher is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 780 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bücher?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 10,770 people named Bücher in 2024, about 1 in 780 residents.
- How common is Bücher compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Bücher is the 35th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%BCcherThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Bücher” — the 35th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.