Büchner

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Deutscher Familienname; Schreibvariante mit u/ü-Vokalismus in der Bucher/Buchner/Bücher/Büchner-Reihe; 3615 Namensträger (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

Pronunciation:Explore pronunciation →

Büchner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

  • ATAustria≈1 in 4.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 8.7K
  • UYUruguay1 in 56K

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 Büchner 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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈9,600 people, est.

Record sources
272 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Austria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Buchner in US United States, DE Germany, AT Austria and 2 more and Buechner in AG Antigua & Barbuda.

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)
recorded in German

Deutscher Familienname; Schreibvariante mit u/ü-Vokalismus in der Bucher/Buchner/Bücher/Büchner-Reihe; 3615 Namensträger.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Büchner is found

(measured from records)

Büchner 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 Büchner is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#343≈9,600 est.≈1 in 8.7K—Buchner148
AT Austria#365≈2,200 est.≈1 in 4.1K—Buchner83
US United States—1,024as Buechner1 in 325K1.6KBuchner272
ZA South Africa—≈910 est.≈1 in 70K—Buchner30
BR Brazil—6371 in 332K637—2
CH Switzerland—1251 in 67K125Buchner19
UY Uruguay—611 in 56K61——
AG Antigua & Barbuda—≈3 est.≈1 in 31K—Buechner1

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); 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Büchner is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Chile, United States, Argentina, Uruguay

    Also written Buchner, Bûchner

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Buchner

  • Danish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Buchner

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Buchner

25 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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Büchner is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Wohnstätten-/Herkunftsname zu Buch/Buchen; zeigt ü/ue-Varianz aus uo/üe. 3 615 Tokens.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

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)
1800185019001950Georg Buchner, b. 1813Ludwig Büchner, b. 1824Joachim Büchner, b. 1905

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)
FormalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Dear Büchner, (English)
InformalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Büchner mean?
Recorded meaning: Deutscher Familienname; Schreibvariante mit u/ü-Vokalismus in der Bucher/Buchner/Bücher/Büchner-Reihe; 3615 Namensträger.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Büchner?
Mondonomo estimates about 9.6 thousand people named Büchner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled buchner. After it come Austria, United States, South Africa and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Büchner?
In Brazil, the national register counted 637 people named Büchner, about 1 in 332 thousand residents.
How common is Büchner compared with other names?
In Germany, Büchner is the 343rd most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Büchner” — the 343rd most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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