How common is the surname Button?

7,341 people in the United States had the surname Button in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 42,058 Americans. It ranked 4,810th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Button?

In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Button identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Button?

Dick Button, American figure skater, sports personality, actor, lawyer (1929–2025), followed by Fiona Button.

Where is the surname Button most common?

Wikidata records people named Button in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Is the surname Button getting more or less common?

More common. 7,111 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,341 in 2010, up 3.2%.

The surname Button

An occupational surname, carried by 7,341 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B350

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Button is more common than 97% of them.

Origin

A surname originating as an occupation for a maker or seller of buttons.

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

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 7,341 people named Button in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 42,058 Americans. That is up 3.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,111.

#4,810

rank among US surnames

7,341

people in 2010

2.5

per 100,000 Americans

+3.2%

change since 2000 (was #4,576)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,801	Sung	7,360	41,949
#4,802	Spooner	7,359	41,955
#4,804	Irons	7,358	41,961
#4,805	McKeown	7,357	41,966
#4,806	Spradlin	7,356	41,972
#4,807	Pettis	7,354	41,983
#4,808	Juan	7,350	42,006

Who is named Button

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

90% of people named Button identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 3.0% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 90%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.0%
Two or more races 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Buttons

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Dick Button
American figure skater, sports personality, actor, lawyer (1929–2025)
Fiona Button
British actress, born 1986

Notable Buttons come mostly from the United States (1) and the United Kingdom (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Button

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

Questions

How common is the surname Button?: 7,341 people in the United States had the surname Button in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 42,058 Americans. It ranked 4,810th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Button?: In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Button identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Button?: Dick Button, American figure skater, sports personality, actor, lawyer (1929–2025), followed by Fiona Button.
Where is the surname Button most common?: Wikidata records people named Button in the United States and the United Kingdom.
What type of surname is Button?: Button is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Button getting more or less common?: More common. 7,111 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,341 in 2010, up 3.2%.