Butoi

surname · Latin script

Meaning: barrel (a wood, plastic or metallic container)

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

/butoj/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Butoi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • RORomania≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 582K
  • ITItaly≈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.

Romania (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,400 people, est.

Sources
34 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)

Romania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

barrel (a wood, plastic or metallic container)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Butoi 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 Butoi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RO Romania≈1,400 est.≈1 in 16K—Butoi34
IT Italy≈100 est.≈1 in 625K—Butoi9
ES Spain861 in 582K86Butoi8
US United States≈32 est.≈1 in 10MlistedButoi31
GB United Kingdom≈13 est.≈1 in 5M—Butoi8
BE Belgium31 in 3.9M3—2
CH Switzerland31 in 2.8M3——

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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Romania

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Buțoi

  • Ukrainian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Бутой, Butoý, Butoy

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Buțoi

40 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)

Butoi 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 Romanian, BUTÓI, butoaie, s. n. 1. Vas de lemn făcut din doage, mai larg la mijloc decât la capete, folosit pentru păstrarea lichidelor, a murăturilor etc.; bute. ◊ Expr. Butoi fără fund = se spune despre cei care beau fără măsură. A vorbi ca din butoi = a avea vocea răgușită. ♦ Conținutul unui astfel de vas. 2. Partea cilindrică la revolvere, în care se introduc cartușele.

    as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

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)

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)

FormalStimate domnule Butoi,Dear Mr Butoi, (English)
InformalSalut Butoi,Hi Butoi, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Butoi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—86#30,803
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—86#30,530
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20243#154,370
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20083#128,152
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Butoi mean, and where does it come from?
barrel (a wood, plastic or metallic container) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Butoi?
A machine transcription gives /butoj/ (IPA) for Romanian.
In which country does Butoi have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Butoi in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled butoi.
How common is the name Butoi?
In Spain, the national register counted 86 people named Butoi, about 1 in 582 thousand residents.

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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, “Butoi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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