Bünte
surname · Latin script
Bünte is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Bunte.
- DEGermany≈1 in 48K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 613K
- NLNetherlands1 in 69K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bunte in US United States, DE Germany, NL Netherlands 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)
Borrowed from German Bunte.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bünte 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Bunte | 84 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Bunte | 1 |
| US United States | — | 543 | 1 in 613K | 560 | Bunte | 144 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 251 | 1 in 69K | 251 | Bunte | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 862K | — | Bunte | 36 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 296K | — | Bunte | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Bunte | 1 |
| GD Grenada | #202 | — | — | — | Bunte | 1 |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Wilhelm Bünteb. 1828DEGerman music director, composer, cantor, choir director and music educator
- August Bünteb. 1836DEGerman conductor, music director and composer (1836-1920)
- Gottlob Bünteb. 1840DEGerman innkeeper, writer and theater director (1840–1907)
- Charles Bünteb. 1880DEGerman pianist (1880–1943)
- Gerhard Bünteb. 1899DEGerman actor
- Iris Arlanb. 1901DEnot in their usual nameGerman actress
- Carl August Bünteb. 1925DEGerman musician and conductor (1925–2018)
- Hermann Bünteb. 1930DEGerman surgeon
- Marco Bünteb. 1970DEGerman political scientist
- Claudia Bünteb. 1972DEGerman university teacher
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(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
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.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bünte mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Bunte. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Bünte have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Bünte in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bunte.
- How common is the name Bünte?
- In the United States, the national register counted 543 people named Bünte in 2010, about 1 in 613 thousand residents.
- How common is Bünte compared with other names?
- In Grenada, Bünte is the 202nd most common surname of 3,427 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%BCnteThe 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, “Bünte” — the 202nd most common surname in Grenada. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.