Buller
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: (i) ‘scribe, copyist’; (ii) ‘person from Buller’, an unidentified place in northern France; (iii) German nickname for a loud talker (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈbʊlə(ɹ)/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Buller is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 4,307 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 19Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 48K
- CACanada≈1 in 52K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 314 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
4,307 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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.
How to pronounce Buller
- English:/ˈbʊlə(ɹ)/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)(i) ‘scribe, copyist’; (ii) ‘person from Buller’, an unidentified place in northern France; (iii) German nickname for a loud talker
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Buller is read
(measured from records)Buller is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English83%
(i) ‘scribe, copyist’; (ii) ‘person from Buller’, an unidentified place in northern France; (iii) German nickname for a loud talker
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
To boil or seethe.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German5.1%
Charaktername; zu mhd. bullen/büllen 'heulen, bellen, brüllen' (lauter Mensch). Bearer count: 646.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Buller is found
(measured from records)Buller 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 4,307 | 1 in 77K | 4.3K | Buller | 314 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Buller | 94 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Buller | 140 |
| CA Canada | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Buller | 94 |
| AU Australia | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Buller | 83 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Buller | 34 |
4,307 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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. 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)Buller 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 Swedish, unpleasant noise (usually associated with mechanical sources such as engines and machinery rather than electric/electromechanical sources)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, first-person singular present passive subjunctive of bullō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, to bubble
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Walter Bullerb. 1838NZNew Zealand lawyer, magistrate, naturalist, ornithologist (1838–1906)
- Redvers Bullerb. 1839GBBritish general (1839–1908)
- Arthur Henry Reginald Bullerb. 1874CABritish-Canadian mycologist (1874-1944)
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Buller mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) ‘scribe, copyist’; (ii) ‘person from Buller’, an unidentified place in northern France; (iii) German nickname for a loud talker Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Buller?
- In English /ˈbʊlə(ɹ)/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Buller?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Buller, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled buller. After it come Germany, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Buller?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,307 people named Buller in 2010, about 1 in 77 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Buller?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bullerThe 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, “Buller” — ranked 7381st in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.