Buc
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Buc is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 142K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 197K
- HRCroatia1 in 282K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- 1 in 142K (inferred from the name graph)
≈340 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Buec in US United States and Büc in DE Germany.
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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Buc 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.
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Buc is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Abbreviation of block upconverter.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, jerk, douche, arrogant person
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, an object that has a cavity
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of bouk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Occitan, beehive (home of bees)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In odt, buck, male goat
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)
- Hernán Büchib. 1949CLnot in their usual nameChilean politician (born 1949)
- Philippe Bucb. 1961FRFrench historian
- Brigitte BucFRFrench actress and writer
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)
Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 132 | #133,220 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 126 | #133,863 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 117 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 117 | #26,341 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 112 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 112 | #26,905 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 109 | #140,756 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 55 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 54 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 48 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 47 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- In which country does Buc have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 344 people named Buc in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled buc.
- Where is Buc most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Buc is densest in Poland — about 1 in 142 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Buc?
- In Poland, the national register counted 269 people named Buc in 2026, about 1 in 142 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Buc?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bucThe 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, “Buc”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.