Buller

Buller is the 7,887th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,036 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 74,100.

By the numbers

People: 4,036
Rank: 7,887th
How common: 1 in 74,100
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

Occupational surname for a scribe or copyist, from an agent derivative of Middle English bulle (“letter, document”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Black, not Hispanic 1.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Buller

Walter Lawry Buller (1838–1906)New Zealand lawyer, magistrate, naturalist, ornithologist
Redvers Buller (1839–1908)British general
Osmo Buller (born 1950)Finnish Esperantist, former General Director of the World Esperanto Association

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

Surnames like Buller

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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.