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Buz

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Buz has been given to 29 babies in the U.S. since 1951. 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 1957, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Buz, 1963

1 in 792,000

Buz over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Buz: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Buz means

Buz is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Buz is used in Old Czech.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old Czech, Buz is pronounced /ˈbuz/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 29 boys were recorded with the name Buz between 1951 and 1963. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1957; its best national rank was #3,044 in 1957.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Buz?

Buz had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1963, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1963
1 in 792,000
5 of 3,958,455 births
Among boys only
1 in 406,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1963
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
548,760 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Buz sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1963 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 548,760 children born in 1963 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Buz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Buzs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Buz was born before 1957 — so the typical Buz is around 68 today.

Median birth year
1957
About 68 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
65.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
29
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 65.5% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Buz 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 1957 (8)
Years since peak
68
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,044
1957

Buz by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,044
1957
Peak year
1957
8 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
1963
All-time count
29
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Sibling names for Buz

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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