Bunton
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A wooden cross-stay in a shaft; a support for shaft slides
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbəntən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bunton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 74K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 79K
- THThailand≈1 in 42Kas บุญตัน
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 Bunton 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 280 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled บุญตัน in TH Thailand.
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)
A wooden cross-stay in a shaft; a support for shaft slides.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bunton 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Bunton | 3 |
| US United States | — | 4,191 | 1 in 79K | 4.2K | Bunton | 280 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Bunton | 4 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 42K | #327,730 | บุญตัน | 63 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Bunton | 104 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Bunton | 11 |
| BB Barbados | #167 | — | — | — | Bunton | 2 |
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. 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)
Bunton is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A different form of Bunting.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In Irish, A variant of Bunting especially in Cos. Armagh and Down
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
In Filipino, heap; pile; collection
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)
- Cleaver Buntonb. 1902AUAustralian politician
- Haydn Bunton, Sr.b. 1911AUAustralian rules footballer (1911–1955)
- Haydn Bunton, Jr.b. 1937AUAustralian rules footballer
- Dick Buntonb. 1953NZNew Zealand cardiac surgeon
- Cypheus Buntonb. 1972USbasketball coach
- Emma Buntonb. 1976GBBritish singer (born 1976)
- Alexandra Buntonb. 1993AUAustralian basketball player (born 1993)
- Hanna Buntonb. 1995CACanadian ice hockey forward
- James BuntonCACanadian musician, recordi producer
- Suzanne BuntonUSPh.D. University of Washington 1996
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 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.2K | #7,899 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.9K | #7,765 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.9K | #8,150 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Bunton mean, and where does it come from?
- A wooden cross-stay in a shaft; a support for shaft slides. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bunton?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbəntən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bunton have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Bunton in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bunton.
- How common is the name Bunton?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,191 people named Bunton in 2010, about 1 in 79 thousand residents.
- How common is Bunton compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Bunton is the 167th most common surname of 11,500 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/buntonThe 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, “Bunton” — the 167th most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.