Buso
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: An East Chadic language spoken in Chad
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/buzu/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain
Buso is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 78K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 167K
- ARArgentina1 in 281K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)An East Chadic language spoken in Chad.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Buso is read
(measured from records)Buso is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- English30%
An East Chadic language spoken in Chad.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese25%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Buso in Portuguese.
- Spanish20%
misspelling of buzo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French7.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Buso in French.
- Italian5.9%
do lat. buca; nos dialetos vênetos, buraco ou fosso; indica origem de área baixa
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Buso 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Buso | 4 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 35K | listed | Buso | 17 |
| BR Brazil | 1,269 | 1 in 167K | 1.3K | Buso | 74 |
| US United States | 269 | 1 in 1.2M | 274 | Buso | 51 |
| PH Philippines | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 457K | — | Buso | 9 |
| SN Senegal | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 78K | listed | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 162 | 1 in 281K | 162 | Buso | 33 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)Buso 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.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of busu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, bus, coach, autobus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, mouth (of a fish)
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)- Armando Busob. 1914ITItalian painter and engraver (1914-1975)
- Sergio Busob. 1950ITItalian footballer (1950-2011)
- Renato Busob. 1969ITItalian footballer
- Paolo Busob. 1986ITItalian rugby union player
- Marianne Busob. 1992FRFrench basketball player (1992-)
- Nicolò Busob. 2000ITItalian association football player
- Vanessa Busob. 2001USAmerican–Mexican association football player
- Gaia Busob. 2002ITItalian rugby union player
- Aurelio BusoItalian painter
- Federico Busoactor
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #7,445 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 274 | #75,813 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 270 | #68,172 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 269 | #72,332 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 162 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Buso mean, and where does it come from?
- An East Chadic language spoken in Chad. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Buso?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /buzu/; in Spanish /buso/; in Italian /buso/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Buso have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Buso in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled buso.
- How common is the name Buso?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,269 people named Buso, about 1 in 167 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Buso?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/busoThe 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, “Buso”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.