Burer

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/bɝɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Burer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.3Mas Buerer(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 38K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 123K

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 Burer 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)

≈2,200 named Buerer, est.

Sources
99 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BuererLatin(measured from records)

Locally spelled Buerer in US United States, IN India, CN China and 1 more and Bürer in CH Switzerland.

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.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Burer 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.

Where Burer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈2,200 est.≈1 in 646K—Buerer1
CH Switzerland2241 in 38K224Bürer10
IN India≈150 est.≈1 in 8.8M—Buerer5
US United States147as Buerer1 in 2.3M164Buerer99
NL Netherlands1401 in 123K140Burer23
LR Liberia≈14 est.≈1 in 369K—Buerer1
DK Denmark81 in 734K8——

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Burer is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Urdu surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, India

    Languages: Urdu, Hindi

    Also written Bürer

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bürer

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Switzerland

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Bürer

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Bürer

25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

FormalDear Burer,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Burer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007140#14,346
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010106#153,769
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—8#48,346
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • 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

How do you pronounce Burer?
A machine transcription gives /bɝɐ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Burer have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Buerer in China, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Burer most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Burer is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Burer?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 224 people named Burer in 2024, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.

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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, “Burer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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