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Butt

in Maine

There are 28 people with the last name "Butt" in Maine.

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Butt 5,124
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  1. is 5,120th most common Blaine
  2. is 5,121st most common Bly
  3. is 5,122nd most common Bowditch
  4. is 5,123rd most common Brockett
  5. is 5,124th most common Butt
  6. is 5,125th most common Calkins
  7. is 5,126th most common Cantwell
  8. is 5,127th most common Chessie
  9. is 5,128th most common Corrow

Similar Names and Nicknames

Butts, Butterfield, Button, Butterworth, Bott, Betty, Butters, Batt, Buttram, Buttler

Most Common First Names for Butt

Charles, Beverly, Donna, Richard, Susan, Bob, Bonnie, Carlene

Meaning & History

English: topographic name for someone who lived near a place used for archery practice, from Middle English butte ‘mark for archery’, ‘target’, ‘goal’. In the Middle Ages archery practice was a feudal obligation, and every settlement had its practice area.

English: topographic name from Middle English butte ‘strip of land abutting on a boundary’, ‘short strip or ridge at right angles to other strips in a common field’.

English: from Middle English butte, bott ‘butt’, ‘cask’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a cooper or as a nickname possibly for a heavy drinker or for a large, fat man.

English: from a Middle English personal name, But(t), of unknown origin, perhaps originally a nickname meaning ‘short and stumpy’, and akin to late Middle English butt ‘thick end’, ‘stump’, ‘buttock’ (of Germanic origin).

German and English: in both Middle Low German and Middle English 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.

Kashmiri: variant of Bhatt.

FOREBEARS Robert Butt came from Kent, England, to NC in 1640.

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