MEANING & HISTORY
What does Buena mean?
Buena is independently recorded as a given-name field. The Royal Spanish Academy records buena as the feminine form of bueno, from Latin bonus, with good and beneficial senses.
This exact word reading does not establish that a bearer has a particular character or that every family chose the name for that adjective.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
EnglishEtymology & source
A female given name.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
3
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗THE RECORDED SPELLING
Find Buena in the sources
Public-record evidence
OpenHalalan · COMELEC · 2001
Given-name field in the source
BUENACSV record 3,559 (header counted as record 1)
The source transcribes elected-candidate lists. The record number locates the quoted given-name field.
Dictionary trail
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0
Each link opens the language-specific account consulted for this exact spelling. The full source explanation and contributor attribution appear in the dictionary section on this page.
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Buena in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Buena
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Bueno·Good, as a Spanish word
- Bugnay·As an Ilokano or Cebuano plant word: Antidesma bunius
- Elena♀Form of Helen
- Geena♀Variant of Gina
- Lena♀Short form of Helena or Magdalena
- Nena♀Nina variant, also coinciding with Spanish baby girl
- Athena♀Name of the Greek goddess associated with Athens
- Azucena·Lily
What rhymes with Buena?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Buena further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wiktionary contributors — Buena (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- RAE–ASALE: bueno, buena (opens in a new tab)
Exact feminine adjective and Latin bonus origin; word reading only.