Buzz
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- BUZ
- Origin
- English
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,342 for boys
Buzz is a boys' name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 2,342nd for boys in the UK (10 babies).
What does Buzz mean?
English: nickname
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second person to walk on the Moon, made the nickname famous.
More on Wiktionary.
Is Buzz a girl's or a boy's name?
Buzz is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Buzz in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,342nd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 30,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 39% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 10 boys in the UK were named Buzz, making it the 2,342nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,412th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 19 boys.
Half of all the boys named Buzz in the UK since 1996 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among boys in 2025, it was 3,656th in England and Wales and 560th in Scotland.
Buzz in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #2,342 |
| 2024 | 6 | #3,335 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,335 |
| 2022 | 10 | #2,279 |
| 2021 | 14 | #1,791 |
| 2020 | 19 | #1,412 |
| 2019 | 7 | #2,878 |
| 2018 | 7 | #2,823 |
| 2017 | 11 | #2,174 |
| 2016 | 16 | #1,655 |
| 2015 | 9 | #2,425 |
| 2014 | 6 | #3,125 |
Names like Buzz
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hud, Yad, Faiz, Zaydaan, Abdul-Ahad, Ziyaan, Abdul-Hadi, Fawaz, Muhammad-Yusuf, Mehmed, Ubayd, Isaaq
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Buzz: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/buzz, updated 20 October 2026.