Given name & surname
Bun
Bun is a surname from Khmer. It is used in English and Indonesian.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In English usage, Bun as a surname developed from ប៉ុន.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1892. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bun through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 22
- 22 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1927
- 7 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 1986. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1927. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 463 as a first name in 2020; 1,695 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.
Bun’s family of names
In English usage, Bun as a surname developed from the Khmer form ប៉ុន.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bun
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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