Büßer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: penitent (one undergoing penance)
Büßer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 7.6Kas Büsser(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 25Kas Busser
- FRFrance≈1 in 170Kas Busser
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 Büßer 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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)
1,106 named Büsser, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland, as Büsser
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Busser in US United States, DE Germany, NL Netherlands and 2 more and Büsser 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
(measured from records)penitent (one undergoing penance)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Büßer 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | — | 1,106as Büsser | 1 in 7.6K | 1.1K | Büsser | 21 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 705as Busser | 1 in 25K | 705 | Busser | 39 |
| US United States | — | 466as Busser | 1 in 714K | 585 | Busser | 153 |
| FR France | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 173K | 50 | — | 3 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 396K | — | Busser | 42 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 260K | — | Busser | 1 |
| AI Anguilla | #829 | — | — | — | Busser | 1 |
1,106 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Büßer mean, and where does it come from?
- penitent (one undergoing penance) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Büßer have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Büsser, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Büßer most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Büßer itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Switzerland's: the national register counts about 1 in 7.6 thousand people named Büsser.
- How common is the name Büßer?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,106 people named Büsser in 2024, about 1 in 7.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Büßer compared with other names?
- In Anguilla, Büßer is the 829th most common surname of 7,424 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, “Büßer” — the 829th most common surname in Anguilla. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.