Büsch

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Umlautete Form zu mhd

Büsch is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 84th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CACanada≈1 in 19K
  • USUnited States1 in 19K

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 Büsch 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)

≈39,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
401 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BüschLatin(measured from records)
บีชThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Busch in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 3 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)

recorded in German

Umlautete Form zu mhd. busch/bosch(e) ‘Busch, Gesträuch, Büschel, Gehölz, Wald’; zeigt die ü-Variante. Belegt 634 Träger.

Sources 1

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

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Büsch 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 Büsch is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#84≈39,000 est.≈1 in 2.1KlistedBusch204
US United States—17,3541 in 19K17KBusch401
IN India—17,011as Bay1 in 78K17K—10
GB United Kingdom—≈2,100 est.≈1 in 32KlistedBusch81
CA Canada—≈2,000 est.≈1 in 19K1Busch108
DK Denmark—1,837as Bay1 in 3.2K1.8K—1
CH Switzerland#9671,743as Büchi1 in 4.8K1.7KBusch39
NO Norway—8381 in 6.5K838—38
IE Ireland—≈340 est.≈1 in 15K—Busch9

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; the dfa-band-1 register; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Büsch is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Busch

  • Hindi surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Sinhala

    Also written Busch

6 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)

Büsch 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, Hypokoristische Umlaut-Variante; belegt die Monophthongvarianz ü/ö im Haupttonvokalismus. 634 Belege.

    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)

1700180019002000Johann Georg Büsch, b. 1728Carl Büsch, b. 1826Leonhard Büsch, b. 1886Wolfgang Büsch, b. 1929Andreas Büsch, b. 1963Erika Büsch, b. 1974

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 5 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Büsch
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202485#12,519
DE GermanyDeutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Büsch mean?
Recorded meaning: Umlautete Form zu mhd.
In which country does Büsch have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 39 thousand people named Büsch in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled busch.
How common is the name Büsch?
In the United States, the national register counted 17,354 people named Büsch in 2010, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
How common is Büsch compared with other names?
In Germany, Büsch is the 84th 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, “Büsch” — the 84th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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