Buti
given name · Latin script
Meaning: boot (type of shoe)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Buti is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 3.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 677K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 2.5M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Booty in MY Malaysia.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
boot (type of shoe)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Buti 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Buti | 9 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 677K | — | Buti | 5 |
| IT Italy | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | listed | — | 2 |
| US United States | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 31M | 621 | Buti | 26 |
| BR Brazil | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 19M | 146 | — | — |
| MY Malaysia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 4.4M | — | Booty | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | 6 | — | — |
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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 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)
Buti is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, de Buto; pode também indicar oriundo da cidade toscana de Buti
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, ALTERATI: Butélli, Butini. 7 Cognome toscano, formato dall’ipocoristico sincopato Buto dei nomi Benvenuto e Bonaiuto (v. Benvenuti e Bonaiuti), come comprova un’attestazione di un documento fiorentino del 1279: “Bonaiuto vocatus Buto filius Jacobi Bonaiuti”. Nella Toscana occidentale il cognome pud anche rappresentare, in qualche caso, il toponimo Buti (PI).
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In mgm, white
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In wlo, kind of taro with very big leaves: Colocasia esculentum
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In tet, to squeeze, to press
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)
- Lucrezia Butib. 1435FRItalian nun
- Ludovico Butib. 1560FRItalian painter (1560-1611)
- Francesco Butib. 1604ITpoet and librettist from Italy
- Antonio Bandini Butib. 1895ITItalian journalist (1895-1967)
- Carlo Butib. 1902ITItalian singer (1902–1963)
- Alberto Bandini Butib. 1927ITItalian engineer and journalist (1927–1981)
- Luigi Bandini Butib. 1930ITItalian architect (1930–2018)
- Bimla Butib. 1933INIndian physicist
- Marco Butib. 1957ITItalian economist
- Simone Butib. 1983ITItalian volleyball player and beach volleyball 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 222 | #84,463 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 197 | #98,501 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 196 | #88,083 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 146 | #47,410 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| 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 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Buti mean, and where does it come from?
- boot (type of shoe) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Buti a male or female name?
- Buti is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Buti have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Buti in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled buti.
- How common is the name Buti?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15,000 people in South Africa have Buti as their first given name, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/butiThe 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, “Buti”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.