Buda
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic/dwelling-based surname from poln
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/bʲʉːdə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Buda is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 8.3K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 19K
- UYUruguay1 in 22K
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 Buda 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.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 249 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.3K (inferred from the name graph)
5,910 named Boda
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Boda in IN India, NG Nigeria, ZA South Africa and 1 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)Toponymic/dwelling-based surname from poln. buda ‘Bude’ or from the Slavic short form Bud; bearer count 212.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Buda 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 5,910as Boda | 1 in 224K | 5.9K | Boda | 51 |
| PL Poland | 4,600 | 1 in 8.3K | 2.4K | — | 4 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Boda | 19 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Boda | 14 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 34K | listed | Boda | 26 |
| UY Uruguay | 153 | 1 in 22K | 153 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 45 | 1 in 47K | 45 | — | 2 |
5,910 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); the xinhua-italian-manual 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)Buda 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 English, The historical capital of the Kingdom of Hungary, and one of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tut-pro, to attach, follow, accompany
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Russian, "waken."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Turkish, misspelling of bu da (“and this; this one too”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, shack, shanty (simple structure made of non-durable materials, used as a temporary shelter for people, a place for farm animals, equipment or to display goods for sale)
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)- Mario Budab. 1884ITItalian anarchist (1884–1963)
- István Budab. 1884HUfootball player (1884-1945)
- Kazimierz Budab. 1960PLPolish association football player
- Klara Budab. 1964ALjournalist and writer, post-totalitarian
- Robert Budab. 1970PLPolish sportsperson
- Daniel Budab. 1970RORomanian politician
- Yevgeny Budab. 1977RURussian association football player
- Waldemar Budab. 1982PLPolish politician and deputy
- Flóra Anna Budab. 1991HUHungarian film and animation director
- Gheorghe-Ioan BudaRORomanian politician from Șomcuta Mare, Maramureș County
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)43 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5.4K | #398 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.4K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.4K | #1,084 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.2K | #1,182 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 153 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 122 | #24,844 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 45 | #8,231 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 9
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- 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
- Where does the name Buda come from?
- Toponymic/dwelling-based surname from poln. buda ‘Bude’ or from the Slavic short form Bud; bearer count 212. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Buda?
- A machine transcription gives /bʲʉːdə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Buda mean?
- Recorded meaning: Toponymic/dwelling-based surname from poln.
- In which country does Buda have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 5.9 thousand people named Boda, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Buda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Buda is densest in Poland — about 1 in 8.3 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Buda?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4,600 people named Buda in 2026, about 1 in 8.3 thousand residents.
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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, “Buda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.