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    The surname Botten

    A Norse occupational surname, carried by 393 people in the United States.

    Pronounced /ˈbɒtən/ 2 syllables Soundex B350

    Botten: #52,736 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Botten #52,736, 393 people Botten: #52,736 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Botten #52,736, 393 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Botten is more common than 67.5% of them.

    Origin

    Norse origin

    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.

    Botten is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 393 people named Botten in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 785,612 Americans. That is down 9.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 432.

    #52,736
    rank among US surnames
    393
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    -9%
    change since 2000 (was #46,426)

    Who is named Botten

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    91% of people named Botten identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Botten

    Botten has the Soundex code B350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B350.

    Other Norse surnames

    All 126 Norse surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Botten come from?
    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…
    How common is the surname Botten?
    393 people in the United States had the surname Botten in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 785,612 Americans. It ranked 52,736th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Botten?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Botten identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
    How do you pronounce Botten?
    Botten is /ˈbɒtən/, 2 syllables.
    What type of surname is Botten?
    Botten is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Botten getting more or less common?
    Less common. 432 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 393 in 2010, down 9.0%.