Buckland
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Buckland, a place-name meaning 'charter land' (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Buckland is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Buckland is also written บกเลอร in Thai.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 19K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 21Kfew records
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 Buckland 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 320 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
4,013 named Bigler, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Buckland in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled Bigler in CH Switzerland.
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)person from Buckland, a place-name meaning 'charter land'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where the surname Buckland is found
(measured from records)Buckland 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 | 4,013as Bigler | 1 in 83K | 4K | Buckland | 320 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 19K | listed | Buckland | 193 |
| CH Switzerland | 2,714as Bigler | 1 in 3.1K | 2.7K | Bigler | 6 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Buckland | 143 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Buckland | 108 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Buckland | 60 |
| NO Norway | 28 | 1 in 195K | 28 | — | 6 |
4,013 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling bigler. 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 hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Buckland is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from one of several places called Buckland; first attested Ælfgyð of Boclande c970 BCS (D)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, places so called in S England (nine in Devon alone), which get their names from OE boc book + land land, i.e. land held by right of a written charter, as opposed to folcland, land held by right of custom. Vars.: Buddenbrook(s). Buddie see Beadle, Boodle
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A number of places in England:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist William Buckland (1784-1856).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- William Bucklandb. 1784GBEnglish clergyman, geologist and palaeontologist (1784-1856)
- Jonny Bucklandb. 1977GBBritish guitarist (born 1977)
- Andrew Bucklandb. 2000USAmerican film editor
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Buckland mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Buckland, a place-name meaning 'charter land' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Buckland?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Bigler, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United Kingdom, Switzerland, Australia and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Buckland?
- In Norway, the national register counted 28 people named Buckland, about 1 in 195 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bucklandThe 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, “Buckland” — ranked 8058th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.