Buchner
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: inflection of buchen:
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Buchner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 4.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 8.7K
- UYUruguay1 in 56K
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 Buchner 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)
- Record sources
- 272 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Buechner in AG Antigua & Barbuda.
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)inflection of buchen:
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Buchner is read
(measured from records)Buchner is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English47%
Eduard, German chemist (Nobel
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- German37%
inflection of buchen:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Deutscher Familienname; Schreibvariante mit u/ü-Vokalismus in der Bucher/Buchner/Bücher/Büchner-Reihe; 3506 Namensträger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Wohnstätten-/Herkunftsname zu Buch/Buchen; zeigt u-Variante ohne Umlaut (zu uo/üe). 3 506 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Buchner 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 | #343 | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | Buchner | 148 |
| AT Austria | #365 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Buchner | 83 |
| US United States | — | 1,024as Buechner | 1 in 325K | 1.6K | Buchner | 272 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Buchner | 30 |
| BR Brazil | — | 637 | 1 in 332K | 637 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 125 | 1 in 67K | 125 | Buchner | 19 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 61 | 1 in 56K | 61 | — | — |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Buechner | 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)- August Buchnerb. 1591DEGerman author (1591-1661)
- Johann Andreas Buchnerb. 1783DEGerman pharmacologist (1783-1852)
- Ludwig Andreas Buchnerb. 1813DEGerman pharmacologist (1813-1897)
- Hans Ernst August Buchnerb. 1850DEGerman bacteriologist (1850–1902)
- Eduard Buchnerb. 1860DEGerman chemist (1907 Nobel Prize)
- Franz Buchnerb. 1898DEGerman politician (1898-1967)
- Hermann Buchnerb. 1919DEGerman flying ace (1919–2005)
- Annemarie Buchnerb. 1924DEalpine skier
- Klaus Buchnerb. 1941DEGerman politician and physicist
- Dennis Buchnerb. 1977DEGerman politician
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,230 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,601 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 974 | #25,403 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 637 | #13,690 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 61 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 54 | #17,560 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Buchner mean, and where does it come from?
- inflection of buchen: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Buchner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.6 thousand people named Buchner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled buchner.
- How common is the name Buchner?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 637 people named Buchner, about 1 in 332 thousand residents.
- How common is Buchner compared with other names?
- In Germany, Buchner is the 343rd most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/buchnerThe 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, “Buchner” — the 343rd most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.