Buhagiar
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bʊhadʒɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Buhagiar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Australia than in any other country. In Malta it is the 54th most common surname.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 40K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 229K
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M
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.
- Australia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈640 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malta, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Buhagiar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AU Australia | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Buhagiar | 100 |
| FR France | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 229K | 39 | Buhagiar | 116 |
| US United States | — | 194 | 1 in 1.7M | 194 | Buhagiar | 126 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 467K | — | Buhagiar | 74 |
| MT Malta | #54 | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Buhagiar | 69 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 752K | — | Buhagiar | 8 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Spiridion-Salvatore-Costantino Buhadgiarb. 1846GRnot in their usual nameRoman Catholic bishop (1846-1891)
- Francesco Buhagiarb. 1876MTPrime Minister of Malta (1876-1934)
- Emanuele Buhagiarb. 1876MTMaltese cabinetmaker and designer, 1876-1962
- Mario Buhagiarb. 1945MTMaltese art historian (1945-2026)
- Tony Buhagiarb. 1955AUAustralian rules footballer
- Valerie Buhagiarb. 1963MTCanadian actress
- Dragos Buhagiarb. 1965RORomanian set designer
- Jared Buhagiarb. 1992GBGibraltarian 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 194 | #94,311 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 193 | #100,083 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 182 | #93,427 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 53 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 51 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 49 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Buhagiar?
- A machine transcription gives /bʊhadʒɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Buhagiar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 640 people named Buhagiar in Australia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled buhagiar.
- How common is the name Buhagiar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 194 people named Buhagiar in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is Buhagiar compared with other names?
- In Malta, Buhagiar is the 54th most common surname of 5,132 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/buhagiarThe 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, “Buhagiar” — the 54th most common surname in Malta. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.