Bửn
given name · Latin script
Bửn is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English bunne (“wheat cake, bun”), from Anglo-Norman bugne (“bump on the head; fritter”), from Old French bugne (hence French beignet), from Frankish *bungjo (“little clump”), diminutive o.
- USUnited States1 in 718K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 928K
- DKDenmark1 in 978K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 718K (inferred from the name graph)
463 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bun in US United States.
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)- Middle Englishbunne“wheat cake“wheat cake, bun”(measured from records)
- Anglo-Normanbugne“bump on the head; fritter”(measured from records)
- Old Frenchbugnehence French beignet(measured from records)
- Frankish*bungjo“little clump”(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*bungô“clump“clump, lump, heap, crowd”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰenǵʰ-“thick“thick, dense, fat”(measured from records)
From Middle English bunne (“wheat cake, bun”), from Anglo-Norman bugne (“bump on the head; fritter”), from Old French bugne (hence French beignet), from Frankish *bungjo (“little clump”), diminutive of *bungu (“lump, clump”), from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“clump, lump, heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognate with Dutch bonk (“clump, clot, cluster of fruits”). More at bunch.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bửn 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 463 | 1 in 718K | 1.7K | Bun | 19 |
| SE Sweden | 11 | 1 in 928K | 11 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 10 | 1 in 1.7M | 142 | — | 7 |
| DK Denmark | 6 | 1 in 978K | 6 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
463 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bửn mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English bunne (“wheat cake, bun”), from Anglo-Norman bugne (“bump on the head; fritter”), from Old French bugne (hence French beignet), from Frankish *bungjo (“little clump”), diminutive o… Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people named Bửn?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 463 people named Bửn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bun. After it come Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark and Costa Rica; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bửn most common?
- Bửn is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 718 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bửn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 463 people named Bửn in 2020, about 1 in 718 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%E1%BB%ADnThe 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, “Bửn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.