Бу
surname · Cyrillic script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Бу is a surname written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 660K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 12Kas Baud
- DKDenmark1 in 38Kas Bo
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Бу itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 659K (inferred from the name graph)
1,426 named Bo
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Russia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Bo in US United States, ES Spain and Baud in CH Switzerland.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Бу is found
(measured from records)Бу 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 1,426as Bo | 1 in 148K | 1.4K | — | — |
| US United States | 1,348as Bo | 1 in 247K | 16K | Bo | 41 |
| ES Spain | 1,182as Boo | 1 in 42K | 1.2K | Bo | 8 |
| AR Argentina | 777as Bo | 1 in 59K | 777 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 690as Baud | 1 in 12K | 690 | Baud | 3 |
| RU Russia | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 659K | — | Бу | 87 |
| BE Belgium | 157as Boz | 1 in 75K | 209 | — | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 154as Bo | 1 in 38K | 11K | — | — |
1,426 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names). 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)Бу is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ket, he, she, they (third person singular animate pronoun)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ude, first-person plular exclusive, nominative case: we
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Uzbek, Cyrillic spelling of bu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Kazakh, steam, vapour
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In alt, this
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)- Bu Shangb. 507CNnot in their usual name5th-century BC prominent disciple of Confucius
- Bu Wancangb. 1903CNnot in their usual nameChinese film director (1903-1974)
- Bu Xinb. 1987CNnot in their usual namefootballer
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Бу?
- In the etymology graph, Buğu is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Бу?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Bo, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Spain, Argentina and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Бу?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,426 people named Bo, about 1 in 148 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Бу?
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/%D0%B1%D1%83The 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, “Бу”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.