Butt Family History
Butt Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English but(te) Old English butta ‘(something or someone) short and stumpy’ also used as a personal name up until c. 1200. English: topographic name for someone who lived near a mound from Middle English but(te). Alternatively possibly denoting someone who lived by a tree stump. According to the Oxford English Dictionary this sense is not recorded in English before 1601 but it may be much older. German: in Middle Low German 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. Pakistani and Indian: variant of Bhatt .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022