Büche

Name: Büche: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

Büche is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common

DEGermany≈1 in 145K(inferred from the name graph)
USUnited States1 in 337Kas Bueche
BEBelgium1 in 206K

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 Büche itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: United States (measured from records)
Record sources: 186 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 145K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

BuecheLatin

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Buche

Locally spelled Bueche in US United States, NL Netherlands, DZ Algeria and Buche in CH Switzerland, BE Belgium, LI Liechtenstein.

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.

Cited for this meaning 2

The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Wiktionary

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Büche 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 Büche is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
US United States	—	986as Bueche	1 in 337K	1K	Bueche	186
BR Brazil	—	647	1 in 327K	647	—	1
DE Germany	—	≈550 est.	≈1 in 145K	—	Büche	41
DZ Algeria	—	≈360 est.	≈1 in 118K	—	Bueche	1
NL Netherlands	—	≈180 est.	≈1 in 94K	—	Bueche	3
CH Switzerland	—	162as Bueche	1 in 52K	162	Buche	19
BE Belgium	—	57	1 in 206K	57	Buche	6
LI Liechtenstein	#113	—	—	—	Buche	2

986 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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

Büche is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Buche
Portuguese surname7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Guatemala
Languages: Portuguese, Spanish
Also written Buche, Buché, Bûche
Khmer surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States
Also written Buche
a separate surname7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Switzerland
Also written Buche
French surname7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Switzerland
Languages: French, Swahili, Vietnamese
Also written Buche, Buché, Bûche
Italian surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Italy, Switzerland
Also written Buche

1 further group 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

Wilhelm Bücheb. 1906DEGerman politician
Adriana Olguínb. 1911CLnot in their usual nameChilean lawyer and politician
Katharina Bücheb. 1963DEGerman painter
Wolfgang BücheDEGerman art historian and curator

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

4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Büche
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
CH Switzerland	BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)	2024	63	#15,671

Reference works 1

Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Büche have the most bearers?: In the United States, the national register counted about 986 people named Bueche, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Büche?: In Brazil, the national register counted 647 people named Büche, about 1 in 327 thousand residents.
How common is Büche compared with other names?: In Liechtenstein, Büche is the 113th most common surname of 283 surnames recorded there.

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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%BCche

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 2026-10-13 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, “Büche” — the 113th most common surname in Liechtenstein. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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