# Butts (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/butts/  
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 | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 23,227 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,548 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 13,293 people |
| Change since 2000 | -1.3% (23,540 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Butts 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) | 65% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 30% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.4% |
| Two or more races | 2.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Butts in the United States.

## People named Butts

- Alfred Mosher Butts, American designer and architect; creator of Scrabble (1899–1993)
- James Butts, American triple jumper

## Similar surnames

Betts, Batts, Bettis, Botts, Butz, Bates, Betz, Boots, Bethke, Batz, Budge, Beets.

## 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.