Butt Family History
Butt Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a place
used for archery practice, from Middle English butte ‘mark for
archery’, ‘target’, ‘goal’. In the Middle Ages archery practice was a
feudal obligation, and every settlement had its practice
area.English: topographic name from Middle English butte
‘strip of land abutting on a boundary’, ‘short strip or ridge at right
angles to other strips in a common field’.English: from Middle
English butte, bott ‘butt’, ‘cask’, applied as a
metonymic occupational name for a cooper or as a nickname possibly for
a heavy drinker or for a large, fat man.English: from a Middle
English personal name, But(t), of unknown origin, perhaps
originally a nickname meaning ‘short and stumpy’, and akin to late
Middle English butt ‘thick end’, ‘stump’, ‘buttock’ (of
Germanic origin).German and English: in both Middle Low German
and Middle English the word but(te) denoted various types of
marine fish, originally a fish with a blunt head, for example halibut
(German Heilbutt) or turbot (German Steinbutt), and the
surname may in some cases be a metonymic occupational name for a
seller of fish or salt fish.Kashmiri: variant of
Bhatt.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Butt Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Butt families
 329 - 656  110 - 328 |
 1 - 109  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Butt families
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8 - 14 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Butt Family Origin
Butt Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Butt Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Butt Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Butt census records
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