Büning
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Büning is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 53K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 69K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 940Kfew records
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 Büning itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- 1 in 53K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Buning in NL Netherlands, GB United Kingdom, ID Indonesia and 1 more and Buening in US United States, AG Antigua & Barbuda, IE Ireland.
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)Büning 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Büning | 51 |
| US United States | 594as Buening | 1 in 560K | 618 | Buening | 150 |
| NL Netherlands | 329 | 1 in 53K | 329 | Buning | 28 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 936K | — | Buning | 10 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 4.3M | — | Buning | 7 |
| IE Ireland | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 556K | — | Buening | 1 |
| GY Guyana | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 155K | — | Buning | 1 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Buening | 1 |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Wilhelm Büningb. 1881DEGerman architect and university professor (1881-1958)
- Waldemar Büningb. 1907DE(1907-1974)
- Herbert Büningb. 1939DEGerman mathematician (born 1939)
- Eleonore Büningb. 1952DEGerman journalist
- Emily Büningb. 1985DEGerman politician
- Verena Büningb. 2000German musician
- Nadine Büningb. 2000German musician
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
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
- In which country does Büning have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Büning in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled büning.
- Where is Büning most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Büning is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 53 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Büning?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 329 people named Büning in 2007, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Büning?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%BCningThe 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, “Büning”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.