Buek
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Buek is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script.
- USUnited States1 in 311K◐
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.9M
- AIAnguilla1 in 76K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.1K ●
- Sources
- 189 ●
- 1 in 311K ◐
across 4 countries
34K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Bok in US United States, MY Malaysia, GB United Kingdom and 7 more, Boek in NL Netherlands, BE Belgium, ZA South Africa and 3 more, Buk in DE Germany, PL Poland and Bök in TR Türkiye.
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.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,070 | 25K rec. | 1 in 311K | 1.1K | Bok | 189 |
| DE Germany | 849 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | BuK | 60 |
| MY Malaysia | 811 | 1K rec. | — | — | Bok | 36 |
| GB United Kingdom | 641 | 874 rec. | — | listed | Bok | 27 |
| AU Australia | 627 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Bok | 50 |
| CA Canada | 331 | 462 rec. | — | — | Bok | 28 |
| PH Philippines | 129 | 468 rec. | — | — | Bok | 20 |
| SG Singapore | 114 | 279 rec. | — | — | Bok | 42 |
| IT Italy | 112 | 184 rec. | — | — | Bok | 6 |
| PK Pakistan | 56 | 67 rec. | — | — | Bok | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 32 | 0 rec. | 1 in 6.6M | 142 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | 30 | 27 rec. | — | — | Bok | 14 |
Roughly 1.1K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 311K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English45173%
- German417%
- 285%
- Portuguese203%
- Spanish193%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 451 | 73% |
| German | 41 | 7% |
| 28 | 5% | |
| Portuguese | 20 | 3% |
| Spanish | 19 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Buek is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In plw, hair (on one's head)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In poz-cet-pro, head hair
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In pag, hair
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.
Notable people with this name●
- Johann Nikolaus Buekb. 1736DEbotanist (1736-1812)
- Johannes Nicolaus Buekb. 1779DEGerman botanist and pharmacist (1779-1856)
- Friedrich Georg Buekb. 1795DEGerman author and translator
- Otto Buekb. 1873DEGerman philosopher (1873–1966)
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 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 39 | #124,653 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 · 2 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Buek?
- We estimate roughly 1.1 thousand people bear Buek (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Buek have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.1 thousand people bear Buek in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled bok.
Query this name via API
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About this data
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, “Buek”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.