Bungu
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bungu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 84K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 271K
- BEBelgium1 in 2.3M
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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 84K (inferred from the name graph)
31 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bunğu in TR Türkiye.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bungu 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.
31 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the in-instate-surnames-bystate 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)
Bungu 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 klw, package; wrap
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, upe Centrālāfrikas Republikā, Augškoto prefektūrā, Koto labā krasta pieteka
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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 4 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 31 | #26,702 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 25 | #11,922 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #128,791 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 5 | #99,120 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Bungu have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 31 people named Bungu, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bungu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bungu is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 84 thousand people — even though Switzerland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bungu?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 31 people named Bungu in 2024, about 1 in 271 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bungu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bunguThe 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, “Bungu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.