Buest
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Buest is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 7.3M(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 62Kas Bust
- NLNetherlands1 in 171Kas Bust
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 Buest 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
- 75 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.3M (inferred from the name graph)
≈320 named Bust, est.
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Büst in DE Germany.
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)
Buest 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 | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 252K | — | Büst | 46 |
| NL Netherlands | 101as Bust | 1 in 171K | 101 | — | 11 |
| US United States | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | listed | Buest | 75 |
| DK Denmark | 95as Bust | 1 in 62K | 95 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 29 | 1 in 7.3M | 29 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 10as Bust | 1 in 1.2M | 10 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 7as Bust | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | — | — |
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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Buest is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Welsh, second-person singular preterite colloquial of bod
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 29 | #152,390 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Buest have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 318 people named Bust in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Buest most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Buest is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 7.3 million people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Buest?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 29 people named Buest, about 1 in 7.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Buest?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/buestThe 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, “Buest”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.