Buten

surname · Latin script

Meaning: butene, butylene (C₄H₈)

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

Buten is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Dominican Republic than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.9M(measured from records)
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 22K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 625K

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.

Dominican Republic (inferred from the name graph)

≈470 people, est.

Sources
116 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)

Dominican Republic, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Butén in SE Sweden.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

butene, butylene (C₄H₈)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Buten 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 Buten is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DO Dominican Republic#674≈470 est.≈1 in 22K—Buten12
DE Germany—≈130 est.≈1 in 625K—Buten30
US United States—1151 in 2.9M149Buten116
PH Philippines—≈85 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Buten7
BR Brazil—841 in 2.5M84Buten13
AR Argentina—531 in 858K53Buten16
SE Sweden—≈10 est.≈1 in 1M—Butén3

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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

Buten is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Büten

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt

    Also written Büten

  • Swedish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States

    Languages: Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Butén

22 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Buten is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In nds, outside

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

  • Howard Butenb. 1950USAmerican psychologist and clown (1950-2025)

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 10 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Buten
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020149#121,931
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010115#144,141
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000111#138,741
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—84#72,138
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—53—
US United Stateswru 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 Buten mean, and where does it come from?
butene, butylene (C₄H₈) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Buten have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 469 people named Buten in the Dominican Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled buten.
How common is the name Buten?
In the United States, the national register counted 115 people named Buten in 2010, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
How common is Buten compared with other names?
In the Dominican Republic, Buten is the 674th most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Buten” — the 674th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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