Buechner
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Buechner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 325K(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 5.9Kas Buchner
- DEGermany≈1 in 9.8Kas Buchner
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 Buechner 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)
- Sources
- 272 (measured from records)
- 1 in 325K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,200 named Buchner, est.
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Buchner in US United States, DE Germany, AT Austria and 2 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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Buechner 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 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Buchner | 148 |
| AT Austria | #365 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Buchner | 83 |
| US United States | — | 1,024 | 1 in 325K | 1.6K | Buchner | 272 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Buchner | 30 |
| BR Brazil | — | 637as Buchner | 1 in 332K | 637 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 125as Büchner | 1 in 67K | 125 | Buchner | 19 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 61as Buchner | 1 in 56K | 61 | — | — |
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)
- Frederick Buechnerb. 1926USAmerican Christian writer (1926–2022)
- Thomas S. Buechnerb. 1926USAmerican artist (1926-2010)
- Jack Buechnerb. 1940USAmerican politician (1940-2020)
- Karl Buechnerb. 1970USAmerican singer
- Genevieve Buechnerb. 1991CACanadian actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #23,221 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,446 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 973 | #26,423 |
| US United States | wru 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 Buechner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.2 thousand people named Buchner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Buechner most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Buechner is densest in the United States — about 1 in 325 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Buechner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,024 people named Buechner in 2010, about 1 in 325 thousand residents.
- How common is Buechner compared with other names?
- In Germany, Buechner 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/buechnerThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Buechner” — the 343rd most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.