Bule
surname · Latin script
Meaning: albinism (person or any animal with the condition)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bʲʉɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bule is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vanuatu than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 9.8M(measured from records)
- VUVanuatu≈1 in 594
- HRCroatia1 in 25K
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.
- Vanuatu (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 594 (inferred from the name graph)
≈500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vanuatu, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
albinism (person or any animal with the condition)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bule 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.
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Vanuatu Electoral Office — 2020 General Election consolidated candidate list. 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)
Bule 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.
Beauty.
as a nameThe African book of names
In tuw-pro, staff, shaft
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In mrn, peace, formerly established through feast exchanges between chiefs
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In sbb, peace; calm weather; make peace; be calm, of the weather
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Czech, masculine singular present transgressive of bulit
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)
- James Buleb. 1957VUNi-Vanuatu politician
- Silas Buleb. 1960VUvanuatuan politician
- Agnese Buleb. 1972LVLatvian artist
- Nino Buleb. 1976HRCroatian footballer (born 1976)
- Irma Buleb. 1987IDIndonesian pop singer
- Jernej BuleSIresearcher
- Mateja Kocbek BuleSIresearcher
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 34 sources across 21 countries.
Reference works 4
- 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
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Bule mean, and where does it come from?
- albinism (person or any animal with the condition) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bule?
- A machine transcription gives /bʲʉɫ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Bule have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 502 people named Bule in Vanuatu, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Bule?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 212 people named Bule, about 1 in 999 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/buleThe 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, “Bule”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.