Buena Surname
Approximately 15,552 people bear this surname
Buena Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 12,392 | 1:8,170 | 746 |
| Argentina | 712 | 1:60,033 | 5,110 |
| Thailand | 436 | 1:162,015 | 25,920 |
| United States | 359 | 1:1,009,635 | 74,488 |
| Mexico | 333 | 1:372,751 | 7,627 |
| Saudi Arabia | 199 | 1:155,054 | 22,057 |
| Brazil | 178 | 1:1,202,665 | 41,567 |
| Paraguay | 112 | 1:64,614 | 1,733 |
| Spain | 94 | 1:497,362 | 25,035 |
| Dominican Republic | 92 | 1:113,401 | 4,751 |
| Colombia | 86 | 1:555,512 | 7,336 |
| Taiwan | 72 | 1:325,621 | 2,606 |
| Israel | 58 | 1:147,545 | 15,555 |
| Nicaragua | 52 | 1:115,790 | 1,997 |
| DR Congo | 48 | 1:1,539,158 | 86,567 |
| United Arab Emirates | 40 | 1:229,057 | 15,464 |
| Canada | 36 | 1:1,023,489 | 76,466 |
| Indonesia | 34 | 1:3,889,682 | 201,134 |
| Russia | 30 | 1:4,804,102 | 217,805 |
| Singapore | 30 | 1:183,590 | 7,666 |
| Venezuela | 23 | 1:1,313,221 | 18,235 |
| Qatar | 22 | 1:107,182 | 11,536 |
| England | 14 | 1:3,979,861 | 125,553 |
| Australia | 13 | 1:2,076,592 | 93,242 |
| Uruguay | 11 | 1:311,978 | 20,848 |
| Papua New Guinea | 9 | 1:905,969 | 94,851 |
| Ecuador | 8 | 1:1,988,231 | 21,385 |
| Malaysia | 6 | 1:4,915,704 | 170,578 |
| Peru | 4 | 1:7,946,031 | 41,846 |
| Kuwait | 4 | 1:950,174 | 18,811 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| Japan | 2 | 1:63,922,146 | 62,827 |
| Georgia | 2 | 1:1,872,772 | 35,618 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Bolivia | 2 | 1:5,308,217 | 12,400 |
| New Zealand | 2 | 1:2,264,162 | 49,210 |
| Guatemala | 2 | 1:8,041,334 | 9,698 |
| Hong Kong | 2 | 1:3,667,742 | 11,574 |
| Brunei | 1 | 1:418,731 | 3,893 |
| Cuba | 1 | 1:11,522,716 | 17,380 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Barbados | 1 | 1:287,448 | 2,772 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Guam | 1 | 1:160,121 | 4,893 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| Panama | 1 | 1:3,912,258 | 17,195 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 | 1:12,187,685 | 173,419 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 15 | 1:3,347,912 | 150,340 |
The alternate forms: Bueña (69) are calculated separately.
Buena (9,806) may also be a first name.
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Buena Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Buena Come From? nationality or country of origin
Buena (Arabic: بوينا, Russian: Буэна) is found most in The Philippines. It can also be rendered as a variant: Bueña. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Buena? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 34,076th most commonly used family name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 468,592 people. It occurs predominantly in Asia, where 85 percent of Buena live; 82 percent live in Southeast Asia and 79 percent live in Fil-Southeast Asia. Buena is also the 62,064th most frequently occurring given name in the world, held by 9,806 people.
This surname is most numerous in The Philippines, where it is borne by 12,392 people, or 1 in 8,170. In The Philippines it is most numerous in: Bicol, where 29 percent are found, Calabarzon, where 21 percent are found and National Capital Region, where 18 percent are found. Beside The Philippines this last name is found in 65 countries. It also occurs in Argentina, where 5 percent are found and Thailand, where 3 percent are found.
Buena Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Buena has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Buena surname grew 2,393 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it grew 700 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Buena Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Buena are 35.14% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 88.37% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Buena earn in different countries varies greatly. In Peru they earn 79.94% less than the national average, earning S/. 3,888 per year; in Colombia they earn 24.47% more than the national average, earning $28,258,500 COP per year; in United States they earn 7.86% more than the national average, earning $46,542 USD per year and in Canada they earn 7.04% more than the national average, earning $53,181 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Buena Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Buena in the Russian language | ||
| Буэна | buena | - |
| Buena in the Arabic language | ||
| بوينا | bwyna | - |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Buena
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