Bueño
surname · Latin script
Bueño is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Old Spanish, inherited from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to show favor, revere”).
- UYUruguay1 in 464(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 1.5K
- ECEcuador1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 302 (measured from records)
- 1 in 464 (inferred from the name graph)
33,396 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bueno in ES Spain, AR Argentina, 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)- OldSpanish(measured from records)
- Latinbonus“good”(measured from records)
- Old Latinduenos(measured from records)
- Proto-Italic*dwenos(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*dew-“to show favor“to show favor, revere”(measured from records)
Inherited from Old Spanish, inherited from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to show favor, revere”). Doublet of bonus, a later borrowing.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bueño 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #152 | 33,396 | 1 in 1.5K | 33K | Bueno | 180 |
| US United States | — | 16,936 | 1 in 20K | 17K | Bueno | 302 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 10,254 | 1 in 1.6K | 10K | — | 44 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 7,298 | 1 in 464 | 7.3K | — | 59 |
| AR Argentina | #624 | 6,736 | 1 in 6.8K | 6.7K | Bueno | 92 |
33,396 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 Bueño mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Old Spanish, inherited from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to show favor, revere”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- In which country does Bueño have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 33 thousand people named Bueño, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bueno.
- Where is Bueño most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bueño is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 464 people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bueño?
- In Spain, the national register counted 33,396 people named Bueño, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Bueño compared with other names?
- In Spain, Bueño is the 152nd most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bue%C3%B1oThe 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, “Bueño” — the 152nd most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.