Bu-An
surname · Latin script
Bu-An is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 9.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 11K
- FRFrance≈1 in 110K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Buan in PH Philippines, US United States, NO Norway 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bu-An 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #974 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Buan | 80 |
| FR France | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 109K | 46 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 514 | 1 in 11K | 514 | Buan | 10 |
| US United States | — | 428 | 1 in 777K | 584 | Buan | 147 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 255K | — | Buan | 50 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Buan | 18 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 190K | — | Buan | 4 |
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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Bu-An 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 otd, to smell
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Bu-An have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Bu-An in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled buan.
- How common is the name Bu-An?
- In Norway, the national register counted 514 people named Bu-An, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Bu-An compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Bu-An is the 974th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bu-An?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bu-anThe 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, “Bu-An” — the 974th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.