BuK
surname · Polish · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
BuK is a surname, most frequently recorded in Ukraine. It appears chiefly in Polish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Slavic stem; from *buka 'noise' or 'beech' in related forms.
- UAUkraine1 in 91K◐
- PLPoland1 in 91K
- RURussia1 in 605K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.5K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 82 ●
- 1 in 38K ◐
across 13 countries
recorded for this name
4.4K records
Official registry-verified
Belgium
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Бук in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 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●
Slavic stem; from *buka 'noise' or 'beech' in related forms
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | 3,448 | 3.4K rec. | — | — | Бук | 13 |
| RU Russia | 1,575 | 602 rec. | — | — | Бук | 82 |
| PL Poland | 419△ | 142 rec. | 1 in 91K | 419 | BuK | 50 |
| BE Belgium | 311△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 38K | 311 | — | 1 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | 289 | 109 rec. | — | — | Бук | 20 |
| CZ Czechia | 155△ | 42 rec. | 1 in 69K | 155 | BuK | 25 |
| BR Brazil | 142 | — | 1 in 1.5M | 142 | — | — |
| US United States | 104 | 55 rec. | 1 in 3.2M | 110 | BuK | 15 |
| IN India | 80△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 17M | 80 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 73 | — | 1 in 80K | 73 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 56 | — | 1 in 812K | 56 | — | — |
| FR France | 54 | — | 1 in 1.3M | 54 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Polish2.9K33%
- English1.3K16%
- Czech87410%
- Ukrainian6207%
- Spanish5336%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Polish | 2,868 | 33% |
| English | 1,347 | 16% |
| Czech | 874 | 10% |
| Ukrainian | 620 | 7% |
| Spanish | 533 | 6% |
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●
BuK is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, beech (any tree of the genus Fagus)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, a traditional Korean drum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, beech (beech tree)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tut-pro, to doubt, be stupid
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In cau-drg-pro, some wild animal
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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●
- Jacob Buckb. 1825DEnot in their usual nameSorbian clergyman and author
- Mordko Bukb. 1868CZHolocaust victim (born 1868)
- Wilhelm Buckb. 1869DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician (1869-1945)
- Lea Bukb. 1869CZHolocaust victim (born 1869)
- Villem Bukb. 1879EEEstonian writer and educator (1879-1941)
- Jan Buckb. 1922DEnot in their usual nameSorbian painter (1922-2019)
- Halina Bukb. 1947PLPolish economist
- Tadeusz Bukb. 1960PLPolish military figure (1960-2010)
- Radek Bukb. 1962photographer
- Wanda Bukb. 1988PLPolish lawyer, politician
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 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 419 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 419 | #7,740 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 415 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 415 | #7,954 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 155 | #10,946 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 155 | #6,297 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 142 | #48,466 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 110 | #149,446 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 104 | #156,044 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 80 | #32,949 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 73 | #7,440 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 56 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 116 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name BuK?
- We estimate roughly 1.5 thousand people bear BuK (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does BuK have the most bearers?
- BuK is most frequently recorded in Ukraine, where it is most often spelled бук.
- Where is BuK most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, BuK is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name BuK mean?
- Recorded meaning: Slavic stem; from *buka 'noise' or 'beech' in related forms
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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, “BuK”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.