Buzdugan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: mace, morning star
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/buzduɡan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Buzdugan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 146Kas Буздуган(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 409Kas Буздуган
- ESSpain1 in 317K
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 Buzdugan 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 88 (measured from records)
- 1 in 317K (inferred from the name graph)
≈350 named Буздуган, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Буздуган in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more.
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(measured from records)
mace, morning star
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Buzdugan 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.
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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Buzdugan 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, BUZDUGÁN, buzdugane, s. n. 1. Măciucă sau ghioagă de fier (cu măciulia țintuită), folosită în vechime ca armă de luptă sau ca semn al puterii domnești. 2. Plantă acvatică cu frunze plutitoare, cu flori verzi-alburii și cu fructe în formă de măciucă; capul-ariciului, șovar (Sparganium ramosum).
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)
- Gheorghe Buzduganb. 1867RORomanian judge (1867-1929)
- Ion Buzduganb. 1887ROMoldovan politician
- Cornelia Buzdugan-Hașeganub. 1903RORomanian author
- Daniel Buzduganb. 1974RORomanian actor
- Nicolae BuzduganRORomanian photographer active in Bucharest between 1900 - 1930
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 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 158 | #19,804 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 158 | #19,696 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 20 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 20 | #88,834 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #174,527 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Buzdugan mean, and where does it come from?
- mace, morning star Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Buzdugan?
- In the etymology graph, Buzdygan is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Buzdugan?
- A machine transcription gives /buzduɡan/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- In which country does Buzdugan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 347 people named Буздуган in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Buzdugan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Buzdugan is densest in Spain — about 1 in 317 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Buzdugan?
- In Spain, the national register counted 158 people named Buzdugan, about 1 in 317 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/buzduganThe 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, “Buzdugan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.