Buttery Surname
Approximately 4,409 people bear this surname
Buttery Surname Definition:
This surname is derived from an official title. 'at the buttery.' The keeper of the butlery, or store for liquor; 'buttery-bar' (Shakespeare). Skeat. Early corrupted to buttery. 'Boterye, celariunt, boteria, pincernaculum': Promptorium Parvulorum.
Read More About This SurnameButtery Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2,245 | 1:24,819 | 3,418 |
| United States | 1,106 | 1:327,721 | 29,754 |
| Australia | 548 | 1:49,262 | 6,140 |
| Canada | 251 | 1:146,795 | 15,033 |
| New Zealand | 58 | 1:78,075 | 11,384 |
| Scotland | 53 | 1:101,015 | 6,880 |
| South Africa | 39 | 1:1,389,172 | 74,222 |
| Wales | 28 | 1:110,519 | 8,545 |
| Ireland | 23 | 1:204,736 | 8,142 |
| Isle of Man | 15 | 1:5,721 | 1,243 |
| Northern Ireland | 10 | 1:184,504 | 9,341 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| Spain | 3 | 1:15,584,012 | 120,866 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1:2,737,638 | 105,941 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| Oman | 2 | 1:1,843,986 | 9,590 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Guyana | 1 | 1:762,221 | 14,420 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Somalia | 1 | 1:13,452,061 | 9,224 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:99,202 | 6,620 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Myanmar | 1 | 1:51,937,985 | 2,166 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 2 | 1:2,214,933 | 33,683 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1,124 | 1:21,686 | 3,073 |
| Scotland | 28 | 1:133,686 | 5,889 |
| Wales | 10 | 1:156,842 | 6,008 |
| Jersey | 3 | 1:17,294 | 2,528 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 184 | 1:272,928 | 22,173 |
Buttery Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
This surname is derived from an official title. 'at the buttery.' The keeper of the butlery, or store for liquor; 'buttery-bar' (Shakespeare). Skeat. Early corrupted to buttery. 'Boterye, celariunt, boteria, pincernaculum': Promptorium Parvulorum.
Richard of the Botery, Close Roll, 8 Henry IV.
'The Kitchine, West Larder, Paintree, Butterie, Lawrie, Backhouse, and Bruhouse': Whitaker's Craven.
'To the Drawer of the Buttry...': Privy Purse Exp., Princess Mary.
1530-1. John Butterey and Elizabeth Burnell: Marriage Lic. (London).
1669. Baptised — Mary. d. of John Butterye: St. James, Clerkenwell.
1670. Robert Pargetter and Cassandra Buttery: Marriage Alleg. (Canterbury).
(Anglo-French) Keeper of a Buttery [Middle English boterye, ’&c., an assimilated form of Middle English botelerie, a butlery, butler’s place: v. under Butler]
Probably analogous to Kitchen, Chamber, &c. It may however be a corruption of Botreaux.
Roger de Boteri, Alvered, John, and Roger occur in Normandy 1180-98 (Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae); William Boter in Gloucester c. 1272 (Rotuli Hundredorum).
Buttery Demographics
Buttery Religious Adherence
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Religious Adherence
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Buttery Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Buttery Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Buttery is found most frequently in England. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Buttery? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 106,113th most commonly used last name in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 1,652,880 people. The surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 54 percent of Buttery live; 54 percent live in Northern Europe and 54 percent live in British Isles.
The last name is most numerous in England, where it is carried by 2,245 people, or 1 in 24,819. In England it is primarily found in: Staffordshire, where 9 percent live, Nottinghamshire, where 8 percent live and West Midlands, where 8 percent live. Outside of England this surname occurs in 32 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 25 percent live and Australia, where 12 percent live.
Buttery Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Buttery has changed over time. In England the number of people who held the Buttery surname expanded 200 percent between 1881 and 2014; in The United States it expanded 601 percent between 1880 and 2014; in Scotland it expanded 189 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it expanded 280 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it expanded 1,150 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Buttery Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the Buttery last name is predominantly Catholic (50%) in Ireland.
In The United States Buttery are 21.68% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 68.45% registered with the political party.
The amount Buttery earn in different countries varies markedly. In South Africa they earn 49.3% less than the national average, earning R 120,480 per year; in United States they earn 5.58% less than the national average, earning $40,742 USD per year and in Canada they earn 0.64% more than the national average, earning $49,999 CAD per year.
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