Buster

2,682 people in the United States were counted with the surname Buster in the 2020 census, making it the 11,268th most common in the country. That is about one person in 111,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,682
Rank: 11,268th
How common: 1 in 111,000
Per 100,000: 0.90

Where the name comes from

From Austrian German Buste (“pockmark, boil”), from Latin apostema (“boil”), + -er.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 68.6%
Black, not Hispanic 16.6%
Hispanic or Latino 5.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Buster

Prince Buster (1938–2016)Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer
Dolly Buster (born 1969)Czech-German pornographic actress, film producer and director

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

Surnames like Buster

Also a first name

Buster has been given to 8,178 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1918. 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.