Busking
surname · Latin script
Meaning: present participle and gerund of busk
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: CBG Familienamenbank, 2007
Busking is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.7Mas Buesking(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 400K
- NLNetherlands1 in 823K
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 Busking 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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 400K (inferred from the name graph)
≈260 named Buesking, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Buesking in US United States, CA Canada, CU Cuba and 1 more and Büsking in DE Germany.
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)present participle and gerund of busk
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Busking 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 395K | — | Buesking | 1 |
| US United States | 191as Buesking | 1 in 1.7M | 197 | Buesking | 82 |
| CA Canada | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 746K | — | Buesking | 3 |
| CU Cuba | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 266K | — | Buesking | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Büsking | 15 |
| NL Netherlands | 21 | 1 in 823K | 21 | Busking | 7 |
| IE Ireland | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 400K | — | Busking | 1 |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 21 | #48,206 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Busking mean, and where does it come from?
- present participle and gerund of busk Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Busking have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 258 people named Buesking in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Busking?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 21 people named Busking in 2007, about 1 in 823 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/buskingThe 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, “Busking”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.