Butters Surname

60,305th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 8,357 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Montserrat

Butters Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a nickname. 'the butur.' 'Buture, the bittern. North' (Halliwell). 'Botor, a bustard. "Ther was venisoun of hert and bors, Swannes, pecokes, and botors." Arthourand Merlin.' ibid. v. Bustard.

John le Butur, Cambridgeshire, 1273.

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Butters Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States3,4441:105,24411,563
England2,5621:21,7483,052
Australia8591:31,4274,178
Canada4421:83,3619,272
New Zealand2681:16,8972,950
Guyana1461:5,221914
Germany1331:605,30448,487
Scotland1321:40,5593,794
Wales751:41,2604,005
Brazil491:4,368,864116,514
South Africa371:1,464,26276,407
Russia321:4,503,846209,401
Malta301:14,342837
Netherlands211:804,15159,518
Antigua and Barbuda151:6,611774
Peru121:2,648,67728,015
Thailand111:6,421,668407,040
Switzerland111:746,62949,719
Northern Mariana Islands111:4,962486
Austria101:851,54467,454
Guam81:20,0153,029
Finland61:916,11741,832
Denmark41:1,411,17960,800
Norway41:1,285,57269,185
Northern Ireland31:615,01218,081
Italy31:20,385,563143,117
France31:22,140,907385,998
Indonesia21:66,124,597756,638
Belgium21:5,748,322130,559
Sweden21:4,923,378241,212
Greece21:5,539,895129,142
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Montserrat11:4,947471
Argentina11:42,743,414282,706
Bahamas11:391,7512,737
Belarus11:9,501,059159,228
Burundi11:9,804,8522,349
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
Comoros11:749,524685
United Arab Emirates11:9,162,273135,437
Turks and Caicos Islands11:34,329862
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Grenada11:108,5351,793
Guernsey11:64,4392,137
Philippines11:101,238,223404,861
Oman11:3,687,97114,390
Jamaica11:2,869,94713,896
Japan11:127,844,29373,547
Libya11:6,243,9746,186
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland21:2,214,93333,683
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England1,2591:19,3612,780
Scotland2061:18,1711,889
Jersey101:5,188903
Wales51:313,68310,604
Guernsey41:8,1641,328
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States8481:59,2206,543

Butters (19) may also be a first name.

Butters Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a nickname. 'the butur.' 'Buture, the bittern. North' (Halliwell). 'Botor, a bustard. "Ther was venisoun of hert and bors, Swannes, pecokes, and botors." Arthourand Merlin.' ibid. v. Bustard.

John le Butur, Cambridgeshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

John le Botur, Cambridgeshire, ibid.

John Botere, Huntingdonshire, ibid.

1581. Richard Butter, New. Coll.: Register of the University of Oxford.

1786. Married — William Torris and Frances Butter: St. George, Hanover Square.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

(English) Butter's or Bothere’s (Son): v. under Butter.

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

(English) Descendant of Botthar or Bothere (messenger, army).

Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

Boterus and Botorus are found as personal names in Domesday.

Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

In the U.S. there are both Butter and Butters. Butter Crambe, Butterlaw, Butterleigh, Butterley, Buttermere, Butterton, Butterwick, Butterworth, are local names in England. There is also Booterstown (in some documents Ballybotter, Ballyboother, Butterstown, and Boterstone) near Dublin, which some say was originally Freebooterstown, from its being the resort of these picturesque desperadoes. Lower says Boterus and Botorus are found as personal names in Domesday; but the name Butter may be from Gaelic bude, a house, mansion, habitation, &c.; or from Anglo-Saxon bode, a messenger; or perhaps rather from Gaelic bod-her, a noble or brave leader. Bod is found in several German names; as Bauto, Maroboduus, Merobaudes, Genebaudes.

Ludus Patronymicus (1868) by Richard Stephen Charnock

Butters Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Butters Come From? nationality or country of origin

Butters occurs more in The United States more than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of Butters.

How Common Is The Last Name Butters? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 60,305th most commonly occurring surname in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 872,029 people. The last name occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 47 percent of Butters are found; 45 percent are found in North America and 44 percent are found in Anglo-North America. Butters is also the 2,523,061st most numerous first name worldwide, held by 19 people.

The surname is most commonly used in The United States, where it is held by 3,444 people, or 1 in 105,244. In The United States it is mostly concentrated in: California, where 9 percent live, Utah, where 9 percent live and Massachusetts, where 6 percent live. Aside from The United States this last name exists in 48 countries. It is also common in England, where 31 percent live and Australia, where 10 percent live.

Butters Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Butters has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the last name expanded 406 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it expanded 203 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it contracted 36 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it expanded 1,500 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it contracted 50 percent between 1901 and 2014.

Butters Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those carrying the surname is primarily Catholic (50%) in Ireland.

In The United States those bearing the Butters surname are 15.04% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 61.81% registered with the party.

The amount Butters earn in different countries varies greatly. In Peru they earn 96.78% more than the national average, earning S/. 38,146 per year; in South Africa they earn 559.22% more than the national average, earning R 1,566,550 per year; in United States they earn 7.9% more than the national average, earning $46,558 USD per year and in Canada they earn 10.58% more than the national average, earning $54,941 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Butterss9359/
Butthers930/
Buters92126/
Bauters861,392/
Buttars861,213/
Busters86246/
Bueters86108/
Bouters8672/
Botters8660/
Beuters8656/
Buthers8635/
Buttors8612/
Butgers861/
Buttirs860/
Bouterse801,207/
Woutters8025/
Buytaers8018/
Bousters801/
Buisters801/
Wautters801/
Vautters801/
Bauthers800/
Boters7749/
Butars775/
Büters772/
Butors771/
Bouthiers751/
Wouters7133,267/
Wauters7112,212/
Boeters71379/
Vauters71151/
Vouters71109/
Bothers7138/
Weuters7124/
Wotters714/
Boutors712/
Buitars711/
Bautirs711/
Boutars711/
Wuiters710/
Buterch710/
Wouterse67731/
Woutersz67286/
Wootters6720/
Boothers6714/
Wauthers6714/
Vuysters672/
Vuisters671/
Wouthers671/
Weuthers670/
Whotters670/

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