Butala
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/buˈtɑɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Butala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed both from Slovene Butala and Hindi बुटाला (buṭālā).
- USUnited States1 in 496K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 7.1K
- TNTunisia≈1 in 102K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.1K (inferred from the name graph)
671 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Borrowed both from Slovene Butala and Hindi बुटाला (buṭālā).
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Butala 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 671 | 1 in 496K | 722 | Butala | 180 |
| SI Slovenia | 295 | 1 in 7.1K | 295 | Butala | 6 |
| EG Egypt | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 541K | — | Butala | 2 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Butala | 4 |
| PH Philippines | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Butala | 10 |
| CL Chile | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 292K | — | Butala | 2 |
| IE Ireland | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 261K | — | Butala | 2 |
| HR Croatia | 18 | 1 in 235K | 22 | — | — |
671 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2020; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021). 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)
Butala 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 Indonesian, earth
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Pudele
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sharon Butalab. 1940CACanadian writer
- Daniel Butalab. 1943HRCroatian painter and art pedagogue (1943–2017)
- Peter Butalab. 1953SIresearcher
- Jenna Elfmanb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and producer
- Matej Butalab. 1979SIresearcher
- Vincenc ButalaSIresearcher
- Mark ButalaUSresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-7992-3750
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 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 722 | #33,884 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 673 | #32,267 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 671 | #33,894 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 295 | #1,318 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 22 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 18 | #24,195 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Butala mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed both from Slovene Butala and Hindi बुटाला (buṭālā). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Butala?
- A machine transcription gives /buˈtɑɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Butala have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 671 people named Butala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled butala.
- Where is Butala most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Butala is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 7.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Butala?
- In the United States, the national register counted 671 people named Butala in 2010, about 1 in 496 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/butalaThe 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, “Butala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.