Butter

Used in: 4 countries

Origin: Dutch

Various origins: * From butter, a metonymic occupational surname for a dairyman or seller of butter. * From Old French butor (“bittern”), a nickname for someone who resembled a bittern, perhaps because of his voice. * Borrowed from Dutch and German Butter, possibly a short form of various compound names.

Etymology: Wiktionary (CC-BY-SA)

Name Variants & Related

Buttery Derived from Butter
Butters Derived from Butter
Butteri Derived from Butter
Butterly Derived from Butter
Butteris Derived from Butter
Butterman Derived from Butter
Butterfly Derived from Butter
Butterick Derived from Butter
Butte Root name
Achterberg Dutch origin

Popularity by Country

Butter

Rank #11949

ONS + GRO (merged) ↗

Butter

Rank #36463

Frequency 579 people (0.21 per 100k)

Ethnic Distribution

White 76.34% Hispanic 8.98% Black 10.36% Asian/PI 2.42%

U.S. Census Bureau Surnames ↗

Butter

Rank #85490

Frequency 5 people

sorokinpf/russian_names ↗

Butter

Rank #124725

INSEE Death Records 1970-2024 ↗

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