Butchart Surname
Approximately 2,582 people bear this surname
Butchart Surname Definition:
This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Buchard'; compare Burchett.
Walter Buchard, Somerset, 1 Edward III: Kirby's Quest.
Ralph Buchard, Oxfordshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.
Walter Buchard, Wiltshire, ibid.
Read More About This SurnameButchart Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 661 | 1:548,349 | 45,358 |
| Canada | 479 | 1:76,922 | 8,646 |
| Scotland | 453 | 1:11,819 | 1,589 |
| England | 428 | 1:130,182 | 12,904 |
| Australia | 237 | 1:113,906 | 12,650 |
| Mexico | 122 | 1:1,017,428 | 13,258 |
| South Africa | 69 | 1:785,184 | 53,751 |
| New Zealand | 59 | 1:76,751 | 11,256 |
| Ireland | 15 | 1:313,929 | 10,911 |
| Zimbabwe | 13 | 1:1,187,557 | 68,998 |
| Wales | 13 | 1:238,041 | 14,239 |
| Thailand | 6 | 1:11,773,058 | 553,295 |
| Switzerland | 5 | 1:1,642,583 | 87,307 |
| Greece | 4 | 1:2,769,948 | 101,568 |
| France | 4 | 1:16,605,680 | 368,153 |
| Hong Kong | 3 | 1:2,445,161 | 9,595 |
| Afghanistan | 2 | 1:16,076,592 | 43,178 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Tajikistan | 1 | 1:8,386,692 | 12,859 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 9 | 1:492,207 | 16,355 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 580 | 1:6,454 | 931 |
| England | 98 | 1:248,728 | 18,134 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 15 | 1:3,347,912 | 150,340 |
Butchart Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Buchard'; compare Burchett.
Walter Buchard, Somerset, 1 Edward III: Kirby's Quest.
Ralph Buchard, Oxfordshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.
Walter Buchard, Wiltshire, ibid.
An Anglicized form of French Bouchard. A family or families of this name appear as tenants on lands of the Abbey of Cupar-Angus in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. William Bowchard had a tack of part of the Grange of Kyncreff in 1450 (Cupar-Angus, I, p. 122) In later entries his name appears as Bowehart (for Bowchart 1458), Bouchard, Bouchart and Buschart (1554). David Buchart or Buchert, mason's laborer at Dunkeld, 1512 (Rent. Dunk., p. 125,131). John Buchart is mentioned in the will of Sir Thomas Maule of Panmure, 1513 (Panmure, II, 285). James Buchart, admitted burgess of Dundee, 1608. Nine of the name are recorded in the Edinburgh Marriage Register with spellings Bouchart, Boutcher, Boutchert, Butchard, and Butchart; and there are twelve of the name recorded in Brechin Commissariot Record. There is a Butcharts-land in Forfar Retours (425). Busch art or Buchat (1549) also appears as a misspelling of Wishart.
An Anglicized form of the French Bouchard.
Butchart Demographics
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Butchart Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Butchart Come From? nationality or country of origin
Butchart occurs most in The United States. It may occur as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Butchart? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 167,491st most commonly occurring last name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 2,822,442 people. Butchart is mostly found in The Americas, where 47 percent of Butchart are found; 47 percent are found in North America and 42 percent are found in Anglo-North America.
Butchart is most frequently held in The United States, where it is borne by 661 people, or 1 in 548,349. In The United States it is most common in: Michigan, where 12 percent are found, Washington, where 11 percent are found and California, where 11 percent are found. Excluding The United States it occurs in 23 countries. It also occurs in Canada, where 19 percent are found and Scotland, where 18 percent are found.
Butchart Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Butchart has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Butchart last name increased 4,407 percent between 1880 and 2014; in Scotland it fell 22 percent between 1881 and 2014; in England it increased 437 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it increased 167 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Butchart Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the Butchart surname is chiefly Catholic (56%) in Ireland.
In The United States those bearing the Butchart surname are 6.56% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 53.33% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Butchart earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 145.37% more than the national average, earning R 583,104 per year; in United States they earn 14.6% more than the national average, earning $49,448 USD per year and in Canada they earn 0.04% more than the national average, earning $49,702 CAD per year.
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