How common is the surname Buller?

4,307 people in the United States had the surname Buller in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 71,685 Americans. It ranked 7,708th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Buller?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Buller identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Buller getting more or less common?

More common. 4,163 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,307 in 2010, up 3.5%.

The surname Buller

An English occupational surname, carried by 4,307 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B460

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Buller is more common than 95.2% of them.

Origin

English origin

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

Buller is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,307 people named Buller in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 71,685 Americans. That is up 3.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,163.

#7,708

rank among US surnames

4,307

people in 2010

1.5

per 100,000 Americans

+3.5%

change since 2000 (was #7,381)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,701	Delreal	4,311	71,618
#7,702	Chua	4,309	71,651
#7,707	Weisman	4,308	71,668
#7,708	Buller	4,307	71,685
#7,710	Lasley	4,306	71,701
#7,713	Bussell	4,305	71,718
#7,714	Lail	4,304	71,735

Who is named Buller

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

93% of people named Buller identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.2%
Two or more races 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Buller

Buller has the Soundex code B460, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B460.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Buller come from?: Occupational surname for a scribe or copyist, from an agent derivative of Middle English bulle (“letter, document”).
How common is the surname Buller?: 4,307 people in the United States had the surname Buller in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 71,685 Americans. It ranked 7,708th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Buller?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Buller identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Buller?: Buller is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Buller getting more or less common?: More common. 4,163 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,307 in 2010, up 3.5%.