# Bunge (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/bunge/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,477 |
| US rank (2010) | 18,633 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 209,036 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.0% (1,448 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Bunge in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 92% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 5.2% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.3% |
| Two or more races | 0.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Bunge in the Russian Empire, Canada, Argentina, Germany, Switzerland and the United States.

## People named Bunge

- Mario Bunge, Argentine-Canadian philosopher (1919-2020)
- Alexander Bunge, Baltic German botanist (1803–1890)
- Delfina Bunge, Argentine writer
- Friedrich Georg von Bunge, Baltic German historian and legal scholar (1802–1897)
- Gustav von Bunge, Baltic German physiologist (1844-1920)
- Aleksandr Bunge, Baltic German-Russian physician, zoologist and Arctic explorer (1851–1930)
- William Bunge, American geographer (1928–2013)

## Similar surnames

Benge, Bunce, Banks, Bunch, Bianco, Bowens, Bianchi, Baines, Behnke, Benz, Bang, Bemis.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.