# Butt (surname)

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

A surname from English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | French |
| Type | nickname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 7,020 |
| US rank (2010) | 5,007 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 43,981 people |
| Change since 2000 | +4.3% (6,732 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Butte |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from Middle English butte (“target, goal”), from French but (“target, aim”). * Also as an English surname, from butte (“isolated hill”). * Also as an English surname, from butt (sense 3) (“cask, bottle”). * Also as an English surname, from a nickname related to butt (sense 1) (“thick end”). * As an English and German surname, from butt (sense 4) (“type of flounder”). * As a Kashmiri surname, spelling variant of Bhatt.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Butt 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) | 56% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 2.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.8% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 37% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.3% |
| Two or more races | 3.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Butt in the United Kingdom.

## People named Butt

- Lawson Butt, British actor and film director (1883–1956)

## Similar surnames

Bott, Batt, Boutte, Buteau, Bett, Boyd, Booth, Beatty, Beaty, Bethea, Beattie, Boothe.

## 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.