Bueno

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Portuguese: all right; okay; fine

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

/benu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Bueno is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 1.5K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 6.8K
  • USUnited States1 in 20K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

33,396 people

Sources
302 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 464 (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

all right; okay; fine

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Bueno is read(measured from records)

Bueno is one spelling over 3 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.

  • Portuguese43%

    all right; okay; fine

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish37%

    good

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English12%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Bueno in English.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Bueno 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 Bueno is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#15233,3961 in 1.5K33KBueno180
US United States—16,9361 in 20K17KBueno302
EC Ecuador—10,2541 in 1.6K10K—44
UY Uruguay—7,2981 in 4647.3K—59
AR Argentina#6246,7361 in 6.8K6.7KBueno92

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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bueno is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname46 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Ukraine, Spain

    Languages: English, Ukrainian, Spanish

    Also written Buno, Буньо, Buño, Буно, Bueeno

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Buêno, Bueño, Buéno

  • French surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Spain

    Also written Guenu, Buéno, Guénu, Bueño, Büeno

73 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)

Bueno 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.

  • bom; good

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In lad, good (high quality)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

192019401960198020002020Maria Esther Bueno, b. 1939José Manuel Albares Bueno, b. 1972Claudia Llosa, b. 1976Carlos Bueno, b. 1980Vincent Bueno, b. 1985José Callejón, b. 1987Juanmi Callejón, b. 1987Alberto Bueno, b. 1988Santiago Bueno, b. 1998Yan Couto, b. 2002

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)

FormalPrezado(a) Bueno,Dear Bueno, (English)
InformalPrezado(a) Bueno,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 39 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Bueno
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—33K#147
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—33K#147
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202017K#2,029
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201017K#2,140
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200013K#2,591
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202410K#415
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—10K—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—7.3K—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—6.7K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1995211—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2011197—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2009195—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Bueno mean, and where does it come from?
all right; okay; fine Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Bueno?
A machine transcription gives /benu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
What are other forms of the name Bueno?
In the etymology graph, Bien is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Bueno have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 33 thousand people named Bueno, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bueno.
Where is Bueno most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bueno is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 464 people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bueno?
In Spain, the national register counted 33,396 people named Bueno, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
How common is Bueno compared with other names?
In Spain, Bueno is the 152nd most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Bueno” — the 152nd most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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