Busca
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: search (an attempt to find something)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/buska/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Busca is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 161K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 199K
- UYUruguay1 in 14K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈680 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
search (an attempt to find something)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Busca is read(measured from records)
Busca is one spelling over 4 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.
- Spanish41%
search (an attempt to find something)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Busca in English.
- French21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Busca in French.
- Italian7.9%
variante de Bosca
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Variante di Bosco
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 in the world(measured from records)
Busca 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 91K | listed | Busca | 19 |
| RO Romania | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Busca | 9 |
| PH Philippines | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Busca | 9 |
| FR France | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 199K | 28 | Busca | 125 |
| ES Spain | 296 | 1 in 169K | 296 | Busca | 45 |
| AR Argentina | 283 | 1 in 161K | 283 | Busca | 33 |
| UY Uruguay | 234 | 1 in 14K | 234 | Busca | 12 |
| PT Portugal | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | Busca | 11 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register. 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)
Busca 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 Portuguese, search
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In Asturian, third-person singular present indicative of buscar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, a thin branch, straw, spill, etc.
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)
- Gabriele Buscab. 1540ITarchitect and military engineer for the House of Savoia (circa 1540-1605)
- Ignazio Buscab. 1731ITCatholic cardinal (1731-1803)
- Juan Ignacio Busca de Sagastizábalb. 1868ESSpanish (Basque) organist and composer of religious music (1868-1950)
- Giovanni Buscab. 1939ITresearcher and university professor
- Pasquale Buscab. 1948ITItalian Olympic athlete
- Marco Buscab. 1951ITItalian priest and philosopher (born 1951)
- Guido Buscab. 1953ITItalian chemist
- Gianmarco Buscab. 1965ITItalian bishop
- Emiliano Buscab. 1971ITItalian basketball player (born 1971)
- Leonardo Buscab. 1972ITItalian basketball player (born 1972)
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 18 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 296 | #12,189 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 296 | #12,161 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 283 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 234 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 58 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 53 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 47 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 46 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 31 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Busca mean, and where does it come from?
- search (an attempt to find something) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Busca?
- A machine transcription gives /buska/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Busca have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 683 people named Busca in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled busca.
- Where is Busca most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Busca is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Busca?
- In Spain, the national register counted 296 people named Busca, about 1 in 169 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Busca?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/buscaThe 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, “Busca”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.