Budd

At the 2020 census, 7,684 Americans bore the surname Budd — 4,478th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 38,900.

By the numbers

People: 7,684
Rank: 4,478th
How common: 1 in 38,900
Per 100,000: 2.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English Budda, a nickname of uncertain meaning.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Budd described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 82.7%
Black, not Hispanic 7.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Budd

Zola Budd (born 1966)South African competitive runner
Ted Budd (born 1971)United States Senator from North Carolina since 2023
Harold Budd (1936–2020)American musician
Boyce Budd (born 1939)American rower
James Budd (1851–1908)Governor of California

People named Budd with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Budd

Budde

Also a first name

Budd has been given to 1,090 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1923. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.