Büchele

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Toponymic surname, likely from buoch ‘Buchenwald’ rather than Bühel; 677+11 tokens

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

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

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 67K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 684Kas Buechele
  • BZBelize≈1 in 30K

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 Büchele itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,200 people, est.

Sources
149 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)

Belize, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BuecheleLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Buechele in US United States, BR Brazil, IT Italy and Buchele in BZ Belize, 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)

Toponymic surname, likely from buoch ‘Buchenwald’ rather than Bühel; 677+11 tokens.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Büchele 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 Büchele is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 67K—Büchele59
US United States—486as Buechele1 in 684K494Buechele149
BR Brazil—2971 in 713K297Buechele13
AT Austria—≈110 est.≈1 in 78K—Büchele13
IT Italy—≈100 est.≈1 in 625K—Buechele4
CH Switzerland—441 in 191K44Buchele9
BZ Belize#827≈13 est.≈1 in 30K—Buchele1

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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Büchele is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Venezuela

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Buchele

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Buchele

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Buchele, Buchelé

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Buchele

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Buchele

  • Italian name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Buchele

  • Danish name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Buchele

7 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)

Büchele is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, 677; from mhd. bühel/buoch(e) 'hill; beech, beechwood'; diminutive -le.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Dear Büchele, (English)
InformalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Büchele
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202444#20,543

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Büchele mean, and where does it come from?
Toponymic surname, likely from buoch ‘Buchenwald’ rather than Bühel; 677+11 tokens. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
How do you pronounce Büchele?
A machine transcription gives /byçələ/ (IPA) for German.
In which country does Büchele have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Büchele in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled büchele.
How common is the name Büchele?
In Brazil, the national register counted 297 people named Büchele, about 1 in 713 thousand residents.
How common is Büchele compared with other names?
In Belize, Büchele is the 827th most common surname of 11,408 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, “Büchele” — the 827th most common surname in Belize. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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