Buscà
surname · Latin script
Buscà is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 14K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 161K
- ESSpain1 in 169K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈680 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Busca in AR Argentina, FR France, PH Philippines and 5 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
(measured from records). 1. b. (Stef ; Tec I ; 17 A II 16, III 159, IV 122) ; - f. (Sd XI 91 ; Isp I2, III; 17 A IV 224, V 215). 2. *Buscu, Busculesti t. 3. Buscata s. Busnelti v. Bosna 1.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Buscà 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 91K | listed | Busca | 19 |
| RO Romania | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Busca | 9 |
| PH Philippines | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Busca | 9 |
| FR France | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 199K | 28 | Busca | 125 |
| ES Spain | 296 | 1 in 169K | 296 | Busca | 45 |
| AR Argentina | 283 | 1 in 161K | 283 | Busca | 33 |
| UY Uruguay | 234 | 1 in 14K | 234 | Busca | 12 |
| PT Portugal | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | Busca | 11 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Buscà is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, third-person singular preterite indicative of buscar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nap, alternative spelling of boscare
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Buscà have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 683 people named Buscà in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled busca.
- Where is Buscà most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Buscà is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Buscà?
- In Spain, the national register counted 296 people named Buscà, about 1 in 169 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/busc%C3%A0The 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, “Buscà”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.