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Buzz

#9,863 in 2025Boys' name

Buzz, hum, murmur

Buzz has been given to 280 babies in the U.S. since 1934. In 2025 it ranked #9,863 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1951, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Buzz, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Buzz: meaning, origin, and history

Buzz, hum, murmur

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Buzz means

Buzz means “buzz, hum, murmur”.

Origin, language, and formation

Buzz is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Busby.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 280 boys were recorded with the name Buzz between 1934 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1951; its best national rank was #1,731 in 1951.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,329 in 2020 to #9,863 in 2025.

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 Buzz?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,863
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Buzz 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 2025 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Buzz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Buzzs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Buzz was born before 1956 — so the typical Buzz is around 69 today.

Median birth year
1956
About 69 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
44.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
223
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1950s — 44.3% of all recorded uses (124).

Is Buzz 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
+2,466
Places climbed
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
36.8%
Peak was 1951 (19)
Years since peak
74
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,731
1951

Spellings of Buzz

Buzz is not the most common spelling — Bud is, with 22.7% against Buzz's 0.67%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Buzz around the world

Where Buzz ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2014–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2025–2025
    #560
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and National Records of Scotland. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Buzz by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,863
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,466
Best rank ever
#1,731
1951
Peak year
1951
19 that year
First recorded
1934
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
280
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Buzz

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Buzz

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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