Butera
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/buˈtɛɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Butera is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Italian Butera.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 49K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 112K
- RWRwanda≈1 in 5.2K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 289 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Rwanda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Italian Butera.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Butera 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Butera | 3 |
| US United States | — | 2,965 | 1 in 112K | 3K | Butera | 289 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | Butera | 29 |
| RW Rwanda | #807 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Butera | 10 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Butera | 80 |
| BE Belgium | — | 379 | 1 in 31K | 415 | Butera | 16 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Butera | 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Butera is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, Stepanko Butera, Don cossack. 1643.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In French, third-person singular simple future of buter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In odt, butter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, pilsēta Itālijā ("Butera"), Sicīlijas reģiona Kaltanisetas provincē, 4900 iedzīvotāju (2014. g.)
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)
- Antonio Buterab. 1871ITItalian jurist (1871-1953)
- Sam Buterab. 1927USAmerican musician (1927–2009)
- Robert Buterab. 1935USAmerican politician
- Federico Buterab. 1940ITItalian sociologist
- Federico Maria Buterab. 1943ITItalian physicist
- Sal Buterab. 1952USAmerican baseball player
- Giuseppe Buterab. 1966IThistorian of philosophy (1966-)
- Drew Buterab. 1983USAmerican born Italian professional baseball catcher
- Vanesa Buterab. 1984ARArgentinian actress
- Blake Buterab. 1992USAmerican baseball player and manager (born 1992)
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 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3K | #10,758 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,394 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,070 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 415 | #3,810 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 379 | #4,178 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Butera mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Italian Butera. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Butera?
- A machine transcription gives /buˈtɛɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Butera have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Butera in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled butera.
- How common is the name Butera?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,965 people named Butera in 2010, about 1 in 112 thousand residents.
- How common is Butera compared with other names?
- In Rwanda, Butera is the 807th most common surname of 2,846 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/buteraThe 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, “Butera” — the 807th most common surname in Rwanda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.