Budesa

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Budesa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 264K(measured from records)
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 433K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

184 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
27 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 264K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BudesaLatin(measured from records)
БудешаCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Budeša in HR Croatia, RS Serbia.

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.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Budesa 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 Budesa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1841 in 1.8M197Budesa27
HR Croatia161 in 264K16Budeša6
RS Serbia≈16 est.≈1 in 433K—Budeša3
CH Switzerland81 in 1.1M8—1
IN India——3——

184 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register. 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)

Budesa is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Amharic name2 spellings in the group

    Also written ቡዴሳ

28 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Budesa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000197#87,729
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020188#102,164
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010184#98,553
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20248#72,019
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—3#193,690
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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

In which country does Budesa have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 184 people named Budesa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled budesa.
Where is Budesa most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Budesa is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 264 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Budesa?
In the United States, the national register counted 184 people named Budesa in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.

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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, “Budesa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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