Buechel

surname · Latin script

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

/ˈbjukəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Buechel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Liechtenstein it is the most common surname.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 305K(measured from records)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 37Kas Büchel
  • LILiechtenstein≈1 in 522

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 Buechel 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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈71,000 people, est.

Sources
178 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 522 (inferred from the name graph)

Liechtenstein, 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 Büchel in DE Germany, 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Buechel 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 Buechel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈71,000 est.≈1 in 20K—Buechel3
TD Chad#103≈2,900 est.≈1 in 5.9K—Buechel1
DE Germany—≈2,200 est.≈1 in 37K—Büchel70
CD Congo - Kinshasa—≈1,500 est.≈1 in 66K—Buechel1
CH Switzerland#6571,499as Büchel1 in 5.6K1.5KBüchel36
US United States—1,0921 in 305K1.1KBuechel178
LI Liechtenstein#1≈75 est.≈1 in 522758Buechel25

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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames). 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)

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Buechel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.1K#23,315
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.1K#24,083
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.1K#22,723
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20243#154,370
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

How do you pronounce Buechel?
A machine transcription gives /ˈbjukəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Buechel have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 71 thousand people named Buechel in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled buechel.
How common is the name Buechel?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,092 people named Buechel in 2010, about 1 in 305 thousand residents.
How common is Buechel compared with other names?
In Liechtenstein, Buechel is the most common surname of 283 surnames recorded there.

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The 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, “Buechel” — the most common surname in Liechtenstein. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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