Bür
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Bür is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse burr, from Proto-Germanic *buriz. Cognate with Old English byre (“descendant, son”).
- CHSwitzerland1 in 29K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 65K
- FIFinland1 in 136K
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 Bür itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- 1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
1,460 named Buer
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Bür in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Buer in US United States, NO Norway, DE Germany and 2 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
(measured from records)- Old Norseburr(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*buriz(measured from records)
From Old Norse burr, from Proto-Germanic *buriz. Cognate with Old English byre (“descendant, son”).
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bür is found
(measured from records)Bür 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 1,460as Buer | 1 in 3.7K | 1.5K | Buer | 27 |
| FR France | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 65K | 138 | — | 5 |
| DE Germany | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Buer | 71 |
| US United States | 533 | 1 in 624K | 587 | Buer | 179 |
| CH Switzerland | 293 | 1 in 29K | 293 | — | 20 |
| GH Ghana | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Buer | 23 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Buer | 1 |
1,460 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Bür is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In trk-pro, 1 bud 2 leaf 3 grain
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In vo, office (at a workplace)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nrm, butter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In otk, a bud
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
In trk-pro, 1 почка 2 лист 3 зерно
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bür mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse burr, from Proto-Germanic *buriz. Cognate with Old English byre (“descendant, son”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bür?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Buer, more than in any other country we hold. After it come France, Germany, United States and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bür most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bür is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 29 thousand people — even though Norway holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bür?
- In the United States, the national register counted 533 people named Bür in 2010, about 1 in 624 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bür?
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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%BCrThe 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, “Bür” — ranked 708th in Norway (SSB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.