Bühner
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Bühner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 40K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 271K
- FRFrance≈1 in 4.1M
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 Bühner 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 206 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Bühner in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Buehner in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 3 more.
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 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bühner is found
(measured from records)Bühner 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Bühner | 60 |
| US United States | 1,278as Buehner | 1 in 260K | 1.4K | Buehner | 206 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 446K | — | Buehner | 23 |
| CA Canada | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 269K | — | Buehner | 42 |
| AU Australia | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 410K | — | Buehner | 19 |
| CH Switzerland | 31 | 1 in 271K | 31 | Buehner | 5 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Buehner | 1 |
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). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Rolf Bühnerb. 1944DEGerman university teacher
- Thomas Bühnerb. 1962DEGerman cook
- Frieda Bühnerb. 2004DEGerman basketball player (born 2004)
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bühner?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Bühner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bühner. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Bühner?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 31 people named Bühner in 2024, about 1 in 271 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bühner?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%BChnerThe 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, “Bühner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.