Bouton Family History
Bouton Name Meaning
French:: nickname for someone with a prominent wart carbuncle or boil from Old French bo(u)ton ‘knob lump excrescence’ (from bo(u)ter ‘to thrust or strike’). metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of buttons from Old French bo(u)ton the same word as above specialized to mean ‘button’. from the Old French oblique case of the ancient Germanic personal name Bodo . habitational name from (Le) Bouton the name of several places in various parts of France.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022