Bucalo

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

Bucalo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Bucolo.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1M(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 45K
  • SISlovenia1 in 105K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈450 people, est.

Sources
147 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Variant of Bucolo.

Sources 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bucalo 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 Bucalo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈450 est.≈1 in 139KlistedBucalo16
US United States3201 in 1M337Bucalo147
UY Uruguay751 in 45K75Bucalo7
GB United Kingdom≈59 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Bucalo8
AR Argentina531 in 858K53Bucalo22
HR Croatia281 in 151K28——
SI Slovenia201 in 105K20—1
FI Finland≈16 est.≈1 in 347K—Bucalo1

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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the xinhua-italian-manual register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)

Bucalo is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States

    Also written Bucalò

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Italy

    Also written Búcalo

28 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

FormalDear Bucalo,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Bucalo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020337#63,879
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010320#62,531
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000272#67,725
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—75—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—53—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202128#19,012
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—20#13,570
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202117—
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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 Bucalo mean, and where does it come from?
Variant of Bucolo. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Bucalo?
A machine transcription gives /bjukəɫoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Bucalo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 449 people named Bucalo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bucalo.
Where is Bucalo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bucalo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 45 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bucalo?
In the United States, the national register counted 320 people named Bucalo in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.

What do you want to know about Bucalo?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bucalo

The 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, “Bucalo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Bucalo parses inside a full name →