Butureira Surname

4,427,875th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 20 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Uruguay
Highest density in:
Uruguay

Butureira Surname User-submission:

Vitureira and the rest of similar names, Bitureira, Buitureira, Butureira, Boutureira, Voutureira or Bintureira are all galician names and related between them to the same origin.

The surname is related to the place name of Vitureira or A Vitureira.

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Butureira Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Uruguay171:201,86816,060
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Butureira Surname Meaning

User-submitted Reference

Vitureira and the rest of similar names, Bitureira, Buitureira, Butureira, Boutureira, Voutureira or Bintureira are all galician names and related between them to the same origin.

The surname is related to the place name of Vitureira or A Vitureira. A couple of places with this name can be found in Galicia, Spain. One is in the province of Pontevedra, in O Porriño, and the other one is a village in the parish of Langueiron, Ponteceso, in A Coruña province.

Isidoro Millan Gonzalez-Pardo, in his work 'Toponimia de Ponteceso y su Municipio' states that the etimology of this name place is coming from the latin 'vulturaria', what would mean 'vultures nest'.

Then the surname would be given to the people who, coming from one of these placee, would move to other one nearby, therefore, being known in the new place as the one coming from Vitureira or Bitureira (spelling of the place name in the past centuries).

This surname can be found several times in the different documents related to the 1750's Catastro de la Ensenada, and mainly written with a 'B' and not with 'V' and with different mispellings, like Bintureira or Buitureira that have crossed the times and the oceans. The adoption of the V is coming from the 19th or 20th century in the spanish ortograph. Therefore, many of the B spelling can be found in the Americas, as consequence of the emigration of the galician surname bearers before the ortographic harmonization was done in Spain, whereas the majority of those bearing the surnames with a V can be found in Spain nowadays.

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Butureira Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Butureira Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Butureira is found most in Uruguay. It may be found as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Butureira? popularity and diffusion

It is the 4,427,875th most commonly occurring family name throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 364,377,296 people. The last name Butureira occurs mostly in The Americas, where 95 percent of Butureira reside; 90 percent reside in South America and 85 percent reside in Hispanic Southern America.

The surname Butureira is most widely held in Uruguay, where it is carried by 17 people, or 1 in 201,868. In Uruguay Butureira is most frequent in: Montevideo Department, where 100 percent reside. Beside Uruguay this surname is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Brazil, where 5 percent reside and Spain, where 5 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Boutureira95312/
Buitureira9534/
Bautureira959/
Buturira941/
Bouturaira841/
Buturiroha841/
Voutureira841/
Buturire821/
Bhutorira7810/
Butturara783/
Butorero712/
Butorire5977/
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