Buse
A Turkish name meaning "kiss". In Poland it stays rare: just 62 women carry it, so most people here have never met one.
Buse Pronunciation
Buse is pronounced BOO-se (/ˈbusɛ/).
What Buse means
Where Buse comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Buse arrived in Turkish from Persian, where the word buse means a kiss. Turkish took the sound and the sense together, so the name says pocałunek and nothing more complicated. It carries no diminutive and no variant. One form, written out in full.
The Persian root spread across languages shaped by Persian poetry, where a kiss was a stock image of the love verse. In Turkish it settled as a girl's name and grew common in the late twentieth century. The meaning stayed literal, which is unusual. Most names blur into an association. Buse keeps pointing at the thing itself.
In a Polish class register, Buse would stand out among the Zuzannas and Julias, a Turkish name with no Polish name-day behind it. A teacher reading it aloud meets four letters and one plain meaning. The origin is Persian, the sense is a kiss.
How many people are named Buse
1 in 363610 women in Poland is named Buse. 62 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4652 among female names.
Buse as a middle name
Buse is a first name for 62 women in Poland and a middle name for another 17, a 78/22 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1755th, between Asteria (17) and Büşra (17).
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#1753 Artemis17
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#1754 Asteria17
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#1755 Buse17
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#1756 Büşra17
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#1757 Christelle17