The surname Buster
A Latin surname, carried by 3,211 people in the United States.
Pronounced /ˈbʌstɚ/ 2 syllables Soundex B236 Also a first name
Origin
Latin origin
From Austrian German Buste (“pockmark, boil”), from Latin apostema (“boil”), + -er.
One of 91 Latin surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 3,211 people named Buster in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 96,152 Americans. That is up 6.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,030.
Who is named Buster
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
74% of people named Buster identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 74%
- Black (not Hispanic) 16%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.1%
- Two or more races 2.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 2.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Buster has the Soundex code B236, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B236.
Other Latin surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Buster come from?
- From Austrian German Buste (“pockmark, boil”), from Latin apostema (“boil”), + -er.
- How common is the surname Buster?
- 3,211 people in the United States had the surname Buster in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 96,152 Americans. It ranked 10,030th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Buster?
- In the 2010 Census, 74% of people named Buster identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Black (not Hispanic).
- How do you pronounce Buster?
- Buster is /ˈbʌstɚ/, 2 syllables.
- Is the surname Buster getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,030 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,211 in 2010, up 6.0%.
- Is Buster also a first name?
- Yes. Buster is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.