Búcalo

surname · Latin script

Búcalo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Bucolo.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1M(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 45K
  • SISlovenia1 in 105K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈450 people, est.

Sources
147 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bucalo in US United States, AR Argentina, GB United Kingdom and 3 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)

Variant of Bucolo.

Sources 1

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Búcalo 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 Búcalo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈450 est.≈1 in 139KlistedBucalo16
US United States3201 in 1M337Bucalo147
UY Uruguay751 in 45K75Bucalo7
GB United Kingdom≈59 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Bucalo8
AR Argentina531 in 858K53Bucalo22
HR Croatia281 in 151K28——
SI Slovenia201 in 105K20—1
FI Finland≈16 est.≈1 in 347K—Bucalo1

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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)

Búcalo is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Italy

    Also written Bucalo

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Búcalo under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Búcalo mean, and where does it come from?
Variant of Bucolo. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Búcalo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 449 people named Búcalo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bucalo.
Where is Búcalo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Búcalo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 45 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Búcalo?
In the United States, the national register counted 320 people named Búcalo in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million 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, “Búcalo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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