# Botten (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/botten/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Norse |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 393 |
| US rank (2010) | 52,736 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 785,612 people |
| Change since 2000 | -9.0% (432 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈbɒtən/, 2 syllables |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Various origins: * English metonymic occupational surname for a maker or seller of buttons, variant of Button. * English topographic surname for someone who lived in a valley, from Old Norse botn (“valley bottom”), or a habitational surname from a place named with this word, like Botton, North Yorkshire. This sense also appears as a Norwegian surname, from the same Old Norse word. Compare Botner.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Botten in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 91% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 5.1% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.3% |

## Similar surnames

Bowden, Batten, Boden, Boutin, Bodden, Bouton, Boyden, Bottom, Button, Beaudoin, Bodine, Beaton.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.