Büke
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Büke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 1. Ejderha, büyük yılan.
- KEKenya≈1 in 130K(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 281K
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 1.1M
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.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 130K (inferred from the name graph)
≈410 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Buke in US United States, CA Canada, KE Kenya and 4 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)
1. Ejderha, büyük yılan. 2. Akılı, bilgili.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Büke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Buke | 8 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 281K | — | Buke | 4 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Buke | 7 |
| US United States | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 6.6M | listed | Buke | 61 |
| BR Brazil | 42 | 1 in 5M | 42 | — | — |
| ZA South Africa | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Buke | 3 |
| CA Canada | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Buke | 12 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Buke | 4 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Büke is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Ejderha, büyük yılan. 2. Akıllı, bilgili.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary, per-gender-row harvest)
In German, first/third-person singular subjunctive II of backen
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)
- Ethem Bükeb. 1882TRTurkish statesperson (1882–1953)
- Kenan Bükeb. 1918TRTurkish actor (1918–1993)
- Aydın Bükeb. 1958TRTurkish musicologist (born 1958)
- Ahmet Bükeb. 1970TRTurkish economist and writer (born 1970)
- Caner Bükeb. 1987TRTurkish taekwondo athlete (born 1987)
- Burak BükeTRTurkish academic
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Büke mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Ejderha, büyük yılan.
- In which country does Büke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 412 people named Büke in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled buke.
- How common is the name Büke?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 42 people named Büke, about 1 in 5.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Büke?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%BCkeThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Büke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.