Buter
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bətɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Buter is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 12K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 64K
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
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 Buter 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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bueter in US United States, BZ Belize, IE Ireland and Büter 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Buter 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Buter | 13 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,428 | 1 in 12K | 1.4K | Buter | 54 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Büter | 53 |
| US United States | 309 | 1 in 1.1M | 389 | Bueter | 132 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 349K | — | Buter | 16 |
| IE Ireland | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Bueter | 1 |
| BZ Belize | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Bueter | 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 2020; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Buter is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, butter (spread made of churned cream)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, to stop dead
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, (Git.). Mucho. "Beaucoup, buter " VocBoh . " Buter, hainitz" Barb GH 1970, 35.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Ernst Buterb. 1930NLDutch sculptor
- Cobie Buterb. 1946NLDutch swimmer
- Leonel Buterb. 1993ARArgentinian association football player
- Anna Buterb. 2001NLDutch Handball player
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 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1.4K | #1,053 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 389 | #56,668 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 315 | #59,916 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 309 | #64,388 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
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 Buter?
- A machine transcription gives /bətɐ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Buter have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Buter in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled buter.
- Where is Buter most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Buter is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Buter?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,428 people named Buter in 2007, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Buter?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/buterThe 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, “Buter”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.