Buber

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Buber is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Martin, philosopher.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2M(measured from records)
  • ILIsrael≈1 in 152K
  • ATAustria≈1 in 189K

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)

≈1,700 people, est.

Sources
105 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 152K (inferred from the name graph)

Israel, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Büber in DE Germany, TR Türkiye.

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)

Martin, philosopher

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Buber 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.

Where Buber is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈1,700 est.≈1 in 830K—Buber1
US United States1671 in 2M207Buber105
TR Türkiye≈150 est.≈1 in 551K—Büber10
DE Germany≈120 est.≈1 in 685K—Büber34
PK Pakistan≈110 est.≈1 in 2.1M—Buber4
IL Israel≈57 est.≈1 in 152K—Buber8
AT Austria≈47 est.≈1 in 189K—Buber25
CZ Czechia271 in 396K27——
IE Ireland≈10 est.≈1 in 500K—Buber1

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Buber is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Netherlands, United Kingdom

    Also written Büber, Būber

  • Russian surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Бубер, Буберь, Büber

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Büber

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Büber

  • Hebrew surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, Ukraine, United States, Poland

    Also written בובר, Bober, Büber, Bobr

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Büber

  • Croatian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Büber

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Buber 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 Akan, F, = abQrobu-bere, harvest, (of Indian corn). Jlf^ 13^0

    as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)

  • In Croatian, židovski filozof, sociolog, esejist, prevoditelj i tumač Biblije , zagovarao duhovnu i političku obnovu židovstva na sintezi tradicija i tekovina suvremenoga svijeta; istaknuti borac za izraelsko-palestinski mir

    as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

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)

18001850190019502000Salomon Buber, b. 1827Martin Buber, b. 1878Rafael Buber, b. 1900Margarete Buber-Neumann, b. 1901Yeşim Büber, b. 1977

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 13 sources across 5 countries.

Reference works 3

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 Buber mean, and where does it come from?
Martin, philosopher Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
In which country does Buber have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Buber in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled buber.
How common is the name Buber?
In the United States, the national register counted 167 people named Buber in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.

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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, “Buber”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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