Busk
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bʌsk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Busk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Apparently from French busquer or Spanish buscar.
- USUnited States1 in 631K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 4.3K
- NONorway1 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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 185 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
1,364 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Apparently from French busquer or Spanish buscar.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Busk 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.
1,364 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the is-arnastofnun-aettarnofn 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)
Busk is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In yol, A thick, small cake made of white meal, spiced bread.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a bush or shrub
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmw-pro, bush, thicket
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)
- Wadsworth Buskb. 1730British lawyer
- Hans Buskb. 1772GBBritish poet
- George Buskb. 1807RUsurgeon, zoologist and palaeontologist (1807-1886)
- Hans Buskb. 1815GBBritish lawyer (1815-1882)
- Edward Teshmaker Buskb. 1886British aircraft design pioneer
- Niels Buskb. 1942DKDanish politician
- Terje Welle Buskb. 1952NONorwegian music executive, record producer
- Søren Buskb. 1953DKDanish footballer
- Vidar Buskb. 1970NONorwegian guitarist, vocalist, composer and record producer within genres blues and soul
- Nikolaj Buskb. 1982Danish pianist and accordion player, 1982
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 23 sources across 10 countries.
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Busk mean, and where does it come from?
- Apparently from French busquer or Spanish buscar. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Busk?
- In the etymology graph, Busch and Busker are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Busk?
- A machine transcription gives /bʌsk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Busk have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Busk, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Busk most common?
- Busk is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Busk?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 1,364 people named Busk, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Busk?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/buskThe 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, “Busk”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.