Buchel

surname · German · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Buchel is a surname, most frequently recorded in Germany. In Liechtenstein it is the most common surname. It appears chiefly in German and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • LILiechtenstein1 in 33◐
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 5.6K
  • DEGermany1 in 26K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.8K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
156 ●

16K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 5.6K ◐

Switzerland

Spellings & scripts●

BuechelLatin · English●8.6K records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Buechel in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CN China and 8 more and Büchel in DE Germany, AT Austria, ES Spain and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Buchel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany—4,2053.7K rec.——Büchel68
LI Liechtenstein#11,82357 rec.—758Buchel22
CH Switzerland#6181,499△329 rec.1 in 5.6K1.5KBuchel31
US United States—1,09210K rec.1 in 305K1.1KBuechel156
GB United Kingdom—511484 rec.——Buechel16
CN China—289295 rec.——Buechel4
AU Australia—221207 rec.——Buchel27
CA Canada—164161 rec.——Buechel16
ZA South Africa—10599 rec.——Buchel12
AT Austria—9356 rec.——Büchel11
IT Italy—6069 rec.——Buechel3
AR Argentina—540 rec.1 in 842K54—1

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • German4.6K47%
  • English2.5K26%
  • French1.2K12%
  • Spanish6076%
  • Portuguese981%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
German4,61947%
English2,53126%
French1,18412%
Spanish6076%
Portuguese981%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Buchel is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname1.2K records spelled Buchel2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Switzerland, Belgium

    Also written Büchel

  • Spanish surname778 records spelled Buchel3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Switzerland, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Büchel

  • Russian surname308 records spelled Buchel11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Slovakia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Slovak

    Also written Бучель, Бюхель, Büchel

  • a separate surname64 records spelled Buchel2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, India

    Also written Büchel

  • Hindi surname45 records spelled Buchel3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, India, United States, South Africa

    Also written Büchel

33 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.

Over time●

0102030401900192019401960198038 · 1921

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Buchel in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
189123
190131
191118
192138
193125
194125
195138
196137
197118
198127
199136

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

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●

Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Buchel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020218#90,848
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000212#82,691
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010191#95,545
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—54—
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200753#29,728
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195138—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192138—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196137—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199136—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190131—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198127—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194125—

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 2026-09-12 data build · 27 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Buchel?
We estimate roughly 2.8 thousand people bear Buchel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Buchel have the most bearers?
Buchel is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled büchel.
How common is Buchel compared with other names?
In Liechtenstein, Buchel is the most common surname of 657 surnames recorded there.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Buchel” — the most common surname in Liechtenstein. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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