Bury
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Either from a fortified place or from Bury, Lancashire, from Old English byrig ‘at the stronghold’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bury is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 44K(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 5.1K
- BEBelgium1 in 10K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 296 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
7,540 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Buery in US United States.
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)
Either from a fortified place or from Bury, Lancashire, from Old English byrig ‘at the stronghold’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bury 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 7,540 | 1 in 5.1K | 4.2K | — | 3 |
| US United States | 2,796 | 1 in 119K | 2.8K | Buery | 296 |
| FR France | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 324 | — | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 44K | listed | Bury | 151 |
| BE Belgium | 1,133 | 1 in 10K | 1.1K | Bury | 45 |
| SK Slovakia | 152 | 1 in 36K | 152 | — | 1 |
7,540 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)
Bury is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, timately from the dat. case, byrig, of OE burh fortified place (see Burke), originally used after a preposition (e.g. Rich¬
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, v., kpowu; bury temporarily, geve
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In German, from French Purry
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Irish, The name of an English family of Norman descent which came to Ireland in the late thirteenth century with the Prestons. MIF
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- Friedrich Buryb. 1763DEGerman artist (1763–1823)
- Priscilla Susan Buryb. 1799GBBritish botanist and artist (1799–1872)
- William Henry Buryb. 1859GBmurderer and "Jack the Ripper" suspect
- J. B. Buryb. 1861GBAnglo-Irish historian and classical scholar (1861–1927)
- Robert Gregg Buryb. 1869GBIrish clergyman and classical philologist (1869–1951)
- Edmond Buryb. 1884GBBritish racquets player (1884–1915)
- Pol Buryb. 1922FRpainter, jewelry designer and sculptor from Belgium (1922–2005)
- Michel Buryb. 1952FRFrench sport shooter
- Jan Buryb. 1963PLPolish politician
- Dominik Buryb. 1996PLPolish corss-country skier
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4.2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4.2K | #493 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3.4K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3.4K | #693 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,357 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.8K | #11,296 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,213 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1.1K | #1,133 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 1K | #1,253 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 408 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 389 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 341 | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Bury mean, and where does it come from?
- Either from a fortified place or from Bury, Lancashire, from Old English byrig ‘at the stronghold’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Bury have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 7.5 thousand people named Bury, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bury most common?
- Bury is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bury?
- In Poland, the national register counted 7,540 people named Bury in 2026, about 1 in 5.1 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, “Bury”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.