Buendia
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Buendia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: bom dia; good day; Toledo.
- PEPeru≈1 in 6.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 6.9K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 8.3K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 211 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
bom dia; good day; Toledo
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Buendia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #464 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Buendia | 77 |
| ES Spain | #544 | 7,204 | 1 in 6.9K | 7.2K | Buendia | 125 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Buendia | 8 |
| PE Peru | #789 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Buendia | 72 |
| CO Colombia | #911 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 3 | Buendia | 94 |
| SV El Salvador | #593 | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Buendia | 16 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Juan Buendíab. 1816PEPeruvian general
- Manuel Buendíab. 1926MXMexican journalist
- Hernando Gómez Buendíab. 1945COColombian journalist
- Miguel Maury Buendíab. 1955ESSpanish archbishop
- Willie Revillameb. 1961PHnot in their usual nameFilipino actor, comedian, singer-songwriter, television presenter and politician
- Silvia Buendíab. 1967ECEcuadorian columnist and lawyer
- Ely Buendiab. 1970PHFilipino musician (born 1970)
- Ruth Buendíab. 1977PEGoldman Environmental Prize recipient
- Jeremy Buendiab. 1990USAmerican physique competitor
- Emiliano Buendíab. 1996ARArgentine association football player
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 25 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 7.2K | #762 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7.2K | #762 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 3 | #113 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Buendia mean, and where does it come from?
- bom dia; good day; Toledo Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- In which country does Buendia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Buendia in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled buendia.
- How common is the name Buendia?
- In Spain, the national register counted 7,204 people named Buendia, about 1 in 6.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Buendia compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Buendia is the 464th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Buendia” — the 464th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.