How common is the surname Buettner?

3,602 people in the United States had the surname Buettner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 85,715 Americans. It ranked 9,074th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Buettner?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Buettner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Buettner getting more or less common?

More common. 3,594 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,602 in 2010, up 0.2%.

The surname Buettner

A surname, carried by 3,602 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B356

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Buettner is more common than 94.4% of them.

Origin

From the German surname, from Bütte (“cask, barrel”).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,602 people named Buettner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 85,715 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,594.

#9,074

rank among US surnames

3,602

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

+0.2%

change since 2000 (was #8,444)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,066	Lindo	3,605	85,644
#9,068	Frith	3,604	85,667
#9,073	Roan	3,603	85,691
#9,074	McElwee	3,602	85,715
#9,080	Bellows	3,601	85,739
#9,081	Lindahl	3,599	85,786

Who is named Buettner

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

96% of people named Buettner identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Two or more races 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Buettner

Buettner has the Soundex code B356, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B356.

Questions

Where does the surname Buettner come from?: From the German surname, from Bütte (“cask, barrel”).
How common is the surname Buettner?: 3,602 people in the United States had the surname Buettner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 85,715 Americans. It ranked 9,074th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Buettner?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Buettner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Buettner getting more or less common?: More common. 3,594 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,602 in 2010, up 0.2%.