Bua
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A language spoken in Chad
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbiˈjuˈeɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bua is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 63K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 109K
- UYUruguay1 in 16K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 66 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a mild wound; boo-boo, owie
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bua is read(measured from records)
Bua is one spelling over 4 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.
- English41%
A language spoken in Chad
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish26%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bua in Spanish.
- Italian7.8%
a mild wound; boo-boo, owie
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Variante di Bove
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
- French5.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bua in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Bua 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Bua | 3 |
| IT Italy | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 29K | listed | Bua | 18 |
| ES Spain | 795 | 1 in 63K | 795 | Bua | 66 |
| US United States | 605 | 1 in 550K | 605 | Bua | 34 |
| PH Philippines | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 201K | — | Bua | 10 |
| AR Argentina | 419 | 1 in 109K | 419 | Bua | 38 |
| UY Uruguay | 207 | 1 in 16K | 207 | Bua | 12 |
| NO Norway | 194 | 1 in 28K | 194 | — | 3 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Bua is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Toledo
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In dag, An expression meaning ‘more!’. It is shouted out to musicians to carry on, play louder and better.??
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In lua, sub. conj., because, since, for. Doubtless bualu(6) is understood. § 466.
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
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)
- José Búab. 1895ESSpanish politician
- Rosolino Buab. 1901ITItalian actor (1901-1979)
- Tony Buab. 1980USAmerican football player
- Tatiana Búab. 1990ARArgentine female tennis player
- Matthew F BuasUSnot in their usual nameresearcher
- Ilenia BuaITauthor of Biblioteche Oggi
- Dennis BuaUSresearcher
- Silvia BuaITresearcher
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 28 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Bua come from?
- a mild wound; boo-boo, owie Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bua?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbiˈjuˈeɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Bua mean?
- In English, A language spoken in Chad
- In which country does Bua have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.1 thousand people named Bua in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bua.
- Where is Bua most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bua is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bua?
- In Spain, the national register counted 795 people named Bua, about 1 in 63 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/buaThe 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, “Bua”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.