Butas
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bjutəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Butas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 140K(inferred from the name graph)
- LTLithuania≈1 in 55K
- RORomania≈1 in 66K
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 Butas 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 66 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
≈780 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Lithuania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Buetas in ES Spain.
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.
Sources 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Butas 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Butas | 16 |
| RO Romania | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Butas | 5 |
| ES Spain | 196as Buetas | 1 in 255K | 196 | Buetas | 5 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Butas | 6 |
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | listed | Butas | 66 |
| PL Poland | 57 | 1 in 672K | 31 | Butas | 6 |
| LT Lithuania | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Butas | 13 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 451K | — | Butas | 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Butas is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In tsg, to separate, part, cease to associate with, wean (a child or young animal).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, a ritual offering to the spirits for a good harvest
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, second-person singular past historic of buter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bik, act of setting free, setting loose
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lithuanian, flat, apartment
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In poz-wmp-pro, cut through
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 31 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 31 | #67,809 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 26 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 26 | #76,023 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 26 | #71,228 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 26 | #69,549 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Butas?
- A machine transcription gives /bjutəz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Butas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 780 people named Butas in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled butas.
- How common is the name Butas?
- In Poland, the national register counted 57 people named Butas in 2026, about 1 in 672 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Butas?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/butasThe 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, “Butas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.