Bui
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Vietnamese: only
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/buj˧˥/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bui is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common surname.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 122(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 6.5K
- USUnited States1 in 12K
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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 394 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 122 (inferred from the name graph)
≈810,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bùi in VN Vietnam.
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)only
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bui is read
(measured from records)Bui 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.
- Vietnamese70%
only
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English21%
Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Bui 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #20 | ≈810,000 est. | ≈1 in 122 | 103 | Bùi | 106 |
| US United States | — | 28,919 | 1 in 12K | 35K | Bui | 394 |
| AO Angola | #72 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Bui | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Bui | 114 |
| AU Australia | #549 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Bui | 176 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,000 | 1 in 5.5K | 1K | — | 29 |
| FI Finland | — | 642 | 1 in 8.7K | 642 | — | 15 |
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: The page provides an analysis of the performance of Vietnamese surname lists in identifying Vietnamese individuals for r; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)Bui 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 Italian, forma plural de Bue
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Bove
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Dutch, shower, rain
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
In Russian, "storm."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)- Gianni Buib. 1940ITItalian footballer
- Carlo Buib. 1960ITItalian criminologist
- Fabio Buib. 1965ITItalian politician
- Alain Buib. 1969FRFrench academic, president of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
- Tony Buib. 1973USAmerican film director, born Vietnamese
- Doan Buib. 1974FRFrench journalist
- Gwenegan Buib. 1974FRFrench politician
- Marco Buib. 1977ITItalian cyclist
- Kim Buib. 1989DEGerman gymnast
- Sophia Buiactress
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)49 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Bui mean, and where does it come from?
- only Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bui?
- A machine transcription gives /buj˧˥/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- In which country does Bui have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 812 thousand people named Bui in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bùi.
- How common is the name Bui?
- In the United States, the national register counted 28,919 people named Bui in 2010, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Bui compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Bui is the 20th most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bui?
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/buiThe 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, “Bui” — the 20th most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.