Búfalo

loc · Latin script

Meaning: buffalo (Old World bovine)

Búfalo is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 190K(measured from records)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 105K
  • ARArgentina1 in 798K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,116 people

Record sources
50 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 105K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

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 Bufalo in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, US United States and 2 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)

buffalo (Old World bovine)

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Búfalo 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 Búfalo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1,1161 in 190K1.1KBufalo50
IT Italy≈600 est.≈1 in 105KlistedBufalo15
US United States1391 in 2.4M139Bufalo17
FR France≈76 est.≈1 in 891K13—1
AR Argentina571 in 798K57Bufalo19
ES Spain≈28 est.≈1 in 1.8M—Bufalo5

1,116 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Búfalo is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Italy, United Kingdom

    Also written Bufalo

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bufalo

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)

Búfalo 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 Portuguese, buffalo

    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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Búfalo 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 Búfalo mean, and where does it come from?
buffalo (Old World bovine) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Búfalo have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Búfalo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bufalo.
How common is the name Búfalo?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,116 people named Búfalo, about 1 in 190 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, “Búfalo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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