Labuschagne

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

Labuschagne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From French Labuscaigne.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NANamibia≈1 in 4.8K
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 95K

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.

South Africa (inferred from the name graph)

≈24,000 people, est.

Sources
94 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)

South Africa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From French Labuscaigne.

Sources 1

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Labuschagne 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 Labuschagne is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa#226≈24,000 est.≈1 in 2.3K—Labuschagne94
NA Namibia#908≈550 est.≈1 in 4.8K1Labuschagne4
AU Australia—≈170 est.≈1 in 152K—Labuschagne64
GB United Kingdom—≈98 est.≈1 in 668K—Labuschagne59
US United States—≈83 est.≈1 in 4MlistedLabuschagne85
AE United Arab Emirates—≈57 est.≈1 in 176K—Labuschagne12
NZ New Zealand—≈52 est.≈1 in 95K—Labuschagne25
NL Netherlands—91 in 1.9M9Labuschagne7

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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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)

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

  • English (South Africa) surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands

    Also written Labuschagné

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Labuschagné

34 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Labuschagne 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 Afrikaans, French Huguenot surname from "la Buscagne".

    as a wordsanames.co.za — South African surnames

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)

190019502000Leon Labuschagne, b. 1901Casper Labuschagne, b. 1929Lappies Labuschagné, b. 1989Marnus Labuschagne, b. 1994Samantha Labuschagne, b. 1999

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)

FormalDear Labuschagne,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Labuschagne
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20079#65,678
NA NamibiaECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates20251#15
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Labuschagne mean, and where does it come from?
From French Labuscaigne. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Labuschagne?
A machine transcription gives /ləbʊʃeɪn/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Labuschagne have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Labuschagne in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled labuschagne.
How common is the name Labuschagne?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 9 people named Labuschagne in 2007, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
How common is Labuschagne compared with other names?
In South Africa, Labuschagne is the 226th most common surname of 285,788 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, “Labuschagne” — the 226th most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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