Buza
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/buzɒ/(machine-generated) Hungarian · model-generated · uncertain
Buza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 53K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 61K
- DKDenmark1 in 245K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- 1 in 53K (inferred from the name graph)
796 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Galbūt pravardinė iš slavizmo buzd „plepys; paprastas srėbalas, skysta košė, buiza ir kt.“ (LKŽ I 1226—1227), plg. brus. 5y3a, By30, rus. Bysa : brus. 6y3a „nuosėdos, atliekos, gėralas“ (M. bBuprina, 1969, c. 64), lenk. Buzek, siejama ir su lenk. buza „skysta manų košė; putos“ (J. Bubak, 1970, p. 64). Plg. dar lenk. Buzy (S. Rospond, 1967, p. 110), ček. Buz, Buzek, Buzik, Buzovic (J. Gebauer, 1970, p. 119).
Cited for this meaning 3
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Buza 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 796 | 1 in 418K | 819 | Buza | 192 |
| PL Poland | 630 | 1 in 61K | 327 | — | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 401K | — | Buza | 5 |
| PH Philippines | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 769K | — | Buza | 13 |
| IT Italy | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 403K | — | Buza | 3 |
| HR Croatia | 80 | 1 in 53K | 80 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 34 | 1 in 247K | 34 | Buza | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 24 | 1 in 245K | 24 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 260K | — | Buza | 1 |
796 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Buza is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, Buza, Kamenets peasant. 1565.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Romanian, definite nominative/accusative singular of buză
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; State Department
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Maltese, singulative of buz: a boot (kind of shoe)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sla-pro, cheek, lips
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fng, to ask
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)- János Buzab. 1848HUHungarian naturalist, high-school teacher (1848-1912)
- Barna Buzab. 1873HUpolitician (1873-1944)
- László Buzab. 1885HUjurist (1885–1969)
- Lajos Buzab. 1901HUassociation football player (1901–1965)
- Abdurrahim Buzab. 1905ALAlbanian painter (1905-1986)
- Márton Buzab. 1921HUHungarian economist, trade unionist
- Daniela Buzab. 1930PLPolish chemist (1930–2008)
- Péter Buzab. 1942HUHungarian journalist
- George Buzab. 1949USCanadian actor
- Nedim Buzab. 1995BABosnian basketball 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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 819 | #30,530 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 796 | #29,604 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 792 | #28,375 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 327 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 327 | #10,147 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 303 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 303 | #10,752 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 80 | #9,447 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 77 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 34 | #24,910 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 24 | #19,990 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Buza?
- In Hungarian /buzɒ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Buza have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 796 people named Buza, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled buza.
- Where is Buza most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Buza is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 53 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Buza?
- In the United States, the national register counted 796 people named Buza in 2010, about 1 in 418 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/buzaThe 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, “Buza”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.