Bünting
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from Bünte/Bünde; bearer count 277
Bünting is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Cocos (Keeling) Islands it is the 47th most common surname.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 23Kfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 28K
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 Bünting itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 379 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
8,725 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Bunting in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 5 more and Buenting in CC Cocos (Keeling) Islands.
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)Toponymic surname from Bünte/Bünde; bearer count 277.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bünting 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 8,725 | 1 in 38K | 8.7K | Bunting | 379 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | Bunting | 205 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Bunting | 98 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Bunting | 118 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Bunting | 30 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Bunting | 26 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Bunting | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Bunting | 54 |
| CC Cocos (Keeling) Islands | #47 | — | — | — | Buenting | 1 |
8,725 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. 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)- Heinrich Büntingb. 1545DEGerman clergyman and cartographer
- Edward Buntingb. 1773GBIrish musician and music collector
- Basil Buntingb. 1900GBpoet (1900–1985)
- Mary Buntingb. 1910USmicrobiologist and educator (1910–1998)
- William Buntingb. 1916GBBritish environmentalist
- John Buntingb. 1927GBBritish artist
- Eve Buntingb. 1928GBAmerican children's writer
- David Tibetb. 1960GBnot in their usual nameBritish singer-songwriter and visual artist
- Madchildb. 1975CAnot in their usual nameCanadian rapper
- Stephen Buntingb. 1985GBEnglish darts player (born 1985)
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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
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 Bünting mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from Bünte/Bünde; bearer count 277. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- In which country does Bünting have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.7 thousand people named Bünting, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bunting.
- How common is the name Bünting?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,725 people named Bünting in 2010, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
- How common is Bünting compared with other names?
- In Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Bünting is the 47th most common surname of 484 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%BCntingThe 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, “Bünting” — the 47th most common surname in Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.