Bueford
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bueford has been given to 265 babies in the U.S. since 1905. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1921, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Bueford, 1949
1 in 581,000
Bueford over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Bueford?
Bueford had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1949, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1949
- 1 in 581,000
- 6 of 3,484,085 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 296,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1949
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 402,498 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bueford sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1949 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 402,498 children born in 1949 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bueford. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Buefords were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bueford was born before 1928 — so the typical Bueford is around 97 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 35.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 59.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 35.5% of all recorded uses (94).
Is Bueford rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1921 (15)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.7% average annual change
Spellings of Bueford
Bueford is not the most common spelling — Buford is, with 80.5% against Bueford's 2.0%.
Bueford by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bueford
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bueford
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.