Buess
surname · Latin script
/bəəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Buess is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In the Bahamas it is the 4th most common surname.
- DEGermany≈1 in 14Kas Buss(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 34Kas Buss
- USUnited States1 in 36Kas Buss
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 Buess 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)
- Sources
- 381 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈46,000 named Buss, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Buss in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 4 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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Buess 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Buss | 6 |
| US United States | — | 9,177as Buss | 1 in 36K | 9.5K | Buss | 381 |
| BR Brazil | — | 6,772as Buss | 1 in 31K | 6.8K | Buess | 20 |
| DE Germany | #713 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Buss | 135 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 34K | listed | Buss | 132 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 711 | 1 in 12K | 711 | Buess | 49 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Buss | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 264as Buss | 1 in 21K | 264 | Buss | 7 |
| BS Bahamas | #4 | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Buss | 2 |
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); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
- Heinrich Buessb. 1911CHSwiss physician and historian (1911-1984)
- Eduard Buessb. 1913CHSwiss protestant theologian (1913-2003)
- Jürg Buessb. 1951photographer
- Alex Buessb. 1954CHSwiss experimental musician and composer
- Daniel Buessb. 1976CHexperimental drummer and percussion player
- Remo Buessb. 1977CHSwiss footballer
- Roman Buessb. 1992CHSwiss footballer (b.1992)
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)
Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 711 | #1,770 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 169 | #99,214 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 162 | #114,613 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 146 | #118,853 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Buess?
- A machine transcription gives /bəəs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Buess have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Buss in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Buess most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Buess is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Buess?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 711 people named Buess in 2024, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Buess compared with other names?
- In the Bahamas, Buess is the 4th most common surname of 3,175 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Buess?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/buessThe 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, “Buess” — the 4th most common surname in Bahamas. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.