Buge
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Bug (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/buʒɛ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain
Buge is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 120K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 563K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 120 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 116K (inferred from the name graph)
≈590 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Buge
- Portuguese:/buʒɛ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Bug
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Buge is found
(measured from records)Buge 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 116K | 50 | Buge | 120 |
| BR Brazil | 376 | 1 in 563K | 376 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 5.2M | listed | — | 5 |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | Buge | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Buge is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, indefinite plural of bug
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, inflection of būgan:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In roa-cha, buzzard, Buteo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In due, to spit out
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Julien Bugeb. 1913FRFrench association football player (1913-1940)
- Émile Bugeb. 1924FRFrench paleontologist
- Julien Bugeb. 1935FRassociation football player (1935-2017)
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Buge mean, and where does it come from?
- nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Bug Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Buge?
- In Portuguese /buʒɛ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Buge?
- Mondonomo estimates about 589 people named Buge in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled buge. After it come Brazil, United States, Spain and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Buge?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 376 people named Buge, about 1 in 563 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Buge?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bugeThe 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, “Buge”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.