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    The surname Butt

    A French nickname surname, carried by 7,020 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B300

    Butt: #5,007 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Butt #5,007, 7,020 people Butt: #5,007 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Butt #5,007, 7,020 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Butt is more common than 96.9% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    * 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.

    Butt is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    One of 791 French surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 7,020 people named Butt in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 43,981 Americans. That is up 4.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,732.

    #5,007
    rank among US surnames
    7,020
    people in 2010
    2.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.3%
    change since 2000 (was #4,794)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,998Kingston7,03343,900
    #5,000Hartwell7,03243,906
    #5,001Lora7,03043,918
    #5,002Spitzer7,02743,937
    #5,003Penaloza7,02643,943
    #5,004Veliz7,02443,956
    #5,005Glaze7,02243,968

    Who is named Butt

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

    56% of people named Butt identified as white (not Hispanic), 37% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 3.0% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 56%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 37%
    • Two or more races 3.0%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Butts

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

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

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Butte

    Surnames that sound like Butt

    Butt has the Soundex code B300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B300.

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Butt come from?
    * 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…
    How common is the surname Butt?
    7,020 people in the United States had the surname Butt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 43,981 Americans. It ranked 5,007th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Butt?
    In the 2010 Census, 56% of people named Butt identified as white (not Hispanic), and 37% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Who is the most famous person named Butt?
    Lawson Butt, British actor and film director (1883–1956).
    Where is the surname Butt most common?
    Wikidata records people named Butt in the United Kingdom.
    What type of surname is Butt?
    Butt is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Butt getting more or less common?
    More common. 6,732 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,020 in 2010, up 4.3%.
    What are other spellings of Butt?
    Butte.