Given name & surname
Buell
“one who lives on a hill”
Buell is used as a given name and a surname. One German interpretation is “one who lives on a hill.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “one who lives on a hill.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1889. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Buell through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 840
- 840 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1920
- 38 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1975. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 38 in 1920. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 226 as a first name in 2020; 6,074 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Buell’s family of names
Buell has a related form in Buel. Buell has a related form in Buehi. Buell has a related form in Buehler.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Buell
- Buell NeidlingerAmerican jazz musician; cellist and double bassist (1936–2018)
- Buell KazeeAmerican singer (1900–1976)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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