Bührer

surname · Latin script

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

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

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 73K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 428Kas Buehrer
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 8.1K

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 Bührer 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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,100 people, est.

Sources
178 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BuehrerLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Buehrer in US United States, BZ Belize, AO Angola and 1 more and Buhrer in CH Switzerland, BR Brazil.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bührer 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 Bührer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 73K—Bührer48
CH Switzerland#9621,0421 in 8.1K1KBuhrer26
US United States—777as Buehrer1 in 428K796Buehrer178
BR Brazil—7351 in 288K735Buhrer2
AO Angola—≈710 est.≈1 in 46K—Buehrer1
SS South Sudan#902≈260 est.≈1 in 41K—Buehrer1
BZ Belize#355≈26 est.≈1 in 15K—Buehrer1

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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

Bührer is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, Switzerland, United States

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Buhrer

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Buhrer

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Switzerland, United States

    Also written Buhrer, Bûhrer

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland

    Also written Buhrer

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland

    Also written Buhrer

  • Russian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland

    Also written Buhrer

  • Norwegian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland

    Also written Buhrer

9 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Jakob Bührer, b. 1882Eduard Bührer, b. 1888Julius Bührer, b. 1890Esther Bührer, b. 1926Urs Bührer, b. 1942Gerold Bührer, b. 1948Karl-Heinz Bührer, b. 1959Geneviève Bührer-Thierry, b. 1960Marco Bührer, b. 1979Dennis Bührer, b. 1983

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)

FormalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Dear Bührer, (English)
InformalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Bührer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20241K#1,138

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

How do you pronounce Bührer?
A machine transcription gives /byːʁɐ/ (IPA) for German.
In which country does Bührer have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Bührer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bührer.
Where is Bührer most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bührer is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 8.1 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bührer?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,042 people named Bührer in 2024, about 1 in 8.1 thousand residents.
How common is Bührer compared with other names?
In Belize, Bührer is the 355th most common surname of 11,408 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Bührer” — the 355th most common surname in Belize. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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