Buffin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A sort of coarse material (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Buffin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 587 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- BEBelgium1 in 93K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 140K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 390Kfew records
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
587 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Grenada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A sort of coarse material.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Buffin is found
(measured from records)Buffin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 587 | 1 in 567K | 613 | Buffin | 169 |
| FR France | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 140K | 46 | — | 2 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 510K | — | Buffin | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 385K | — | Buffin | 61 |
| BE Belgium | — | 126 | 1 in 93K | 126 | Buffin | 11 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 160K | — | Buffin | 1 |
| GD Grenada | #794 | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Buffin | 1 |
587 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ken Buffinb. 1923GBBritish gymnast
- Pierre Buffinvisual effects artist
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Buffin mean, and where does it come from?
- A sort of coarse material. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Buffin?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 587 people named Buffin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled buffin. After it come France, Nigeria, United Kingdom and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Buffin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 587 people named Buffin in 2010, about 1 in 567 thousand residents.
- How common is Buffin compared with other names?
- In Grenada, Buffin is the 794th most common surname of 3,427 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Buffin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/buffinThe 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, “Buffin” — ranked 34856th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.