Buie
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Obsolete form of buy
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbwi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Buie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 56K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 2.6M
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
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 Buie 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 56K (inferred from the name graph)
5,943 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
Obsolete form of buy.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Buie 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.
5,943 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Buie is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In lua, deepness, depth, hcijht, altitude, tallness, distance (long), dimension or extent or extension in length or height or depth.
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
In Italian, feminine plural of buio
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Buddy Buieb. 1941USAmerican songwriter, producer, and publisher (1941-2015)
- Drew Buieb. 1947USAmerican football wide receiver
- Marc W. Buieb. 1958USAmerican astronomer
- Corinne Buieb. 1992USAmerican ice hockey forward
- Desure Buieb. 1997USAmerican basketball player (born 1997)
- Boo Buie IIIb. 1999USAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- Will Buie Jr.b. 2007USAmerican actor
- Michael BuieCACanadian film and television actor
- Tyanna BuieUSAmerican visual artist
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.9K | #5,816 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.7K | #5,842 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.6K | #5,721 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 19 | #86,409 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 11 | #37,909 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #161,566 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Buie mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete form of buy. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Buie?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbwi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Buie have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.9 thousand people named Buie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled buie.
- Where is Buie most common?
- Buie is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 56 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Buie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,943 people named Buie in 2010, about 1 in 56 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/buieThe 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, “Buie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.