Given name & surname
Buz
“contempt”
Buz is a masculine given name. It is used in Old Czech.
Original Hebrewבוז
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a biblical name, Buz means “contempt.”
From biblical name research
Where it comes from
Buz is a biblical name from Hebrew.
From biblical name research
How it developed
From the Hebrew noun buz (בוז), “contempt.”
From biblical name research
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1951. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Buz appears in Jeremiah 25:23, Genesis 22:21, 1 Chronicles 5:14 and 1 other passage.
- Jeremiah 25:23
- Genesis 22:21
- 1 Chronicles 5:14
- Job 32:2
From biblical name research
Buz through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 29
- 29 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1957
- 8 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 1963. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1957.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Buz’s family of names
See also 3
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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