The Buan surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 428 people carried this name — #49,177 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 666,700 people counted. That is up 14% from 374 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 255 people named Buan.
3 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 20 départements, most often Ille-et-Vilaine.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
257 people named Buan is counted in Norway.
Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers.
Counted, by country
Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Buan in American newspapers,
1906–1930.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 9,459 pages in all carry the name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Buan.
- Bryan 57,143 · U.S. census
- Bryon 284 · U.S. census
- Brys 439 · U.S. census
- Brzezinski 2,300 · U.S. census
- Brzozowski 1,715 · U.S. census
- Bua 605 · U.S. census
- Bubel 455 · U.S. census
- Buc 126 · U.S. census
- Bucci 5,256 · U.S. census
- Bucco 392 · U.S. census
- Buch 2,420 · U.S. census
- Buche 434 · U.S. census
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