Buţă
surname · Latin script
Buţă is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Deverbal from bucić.
- RORomania≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 14K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 350K
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 Buţă 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.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania, 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 Buta in ES Spain, ZA South Africa, IT Italy and 3 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)Deverbal from bucić.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Where in the world
(measured from records)Buţă 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Buta | 2 |
| RO Romania | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Buta | 30 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 350K | — | Buta | 8 |
| IT Italy | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 406K | — | Buta | 13 |
| ES Spain | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 415K | 824 | Buta | 14 |
| AT Austria | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Buta | 10 |
| PL Poland | 5as Bota | 1 in 7.7M | 321 | — | — |
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: INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 Buţă mean, and where does it come from?
- Deverbal from bucić. Recorded by Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Buţă have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.5 thousand people named Buţă in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled buta.
- How common is the name Buţă?
- In Poland, the national register counted 5 people named Bota in 2026, about 1 in 7.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Buţă?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bu%C5%A3%C4%83The 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, “Buţă”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.