Büla
surname · Latin script
Büla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Two main origins: * Borrowed from Polish Bula or Buła, from buła (“round object; fat person”). * Borrowed from American Spanish Bula.
- USUnited States1 in 565K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 23K
- PLPoland1 in 27K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Büla 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
1,435 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bula in US United States, IN India, CH Switzerland.
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)
- Polish Bulaor(measured from records)
- Polish Bula rootbuła“round object; fat person”(measured from records)
- American SpanishBula(measured from records)
Two main origins: * Borrowed from Polish Bula or Buła, from buła (“round object; fat person”). * Borrowed from American Spanish Bula.
Sources 3
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Wiktionary
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Büla 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 1,435 | 1 in 27K | 731 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 949as Buela | 1 in 3.6K | 949 | — | — |
| US United States | 589 | 1 in 565K | 658 | Bula | 178 |
| IN India | 480 | 1 in 2.8M | 480 | Bula | 21 |
| CH Switzerland | 371 | 1 in 23K | 371 | Bula | 29 |
| AR Argentina | 303 | 1 in 150K | 303 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 295 | 1 in 36K | 295 | — | — |
1,435 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Büla mean, and where does it come from?
- Two main origins: * Borrowed from Polish Bula or Buła, from buła (“round object; fat person”). * Borrowed from American Spanish Bula. Recorded by Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Büla have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Büla, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Büla most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Büla is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Büla?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,435 people named Büla in 2026, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
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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, “Büla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.