Busse

Busse is the 6,532nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,994 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 59,900.

By the numbers

People: 4,994
Rank: 6,532nd
How common: 1 in 59,900
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

Origin German

From the German surname, spelling variant of Buss, itself a pet form of Burkhard. Also from a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *buhsā (“box, firelock”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Busse

Theodor Busse (1897–1986)German general of infantry in the Second World War

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

Surnames like Busse

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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.