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Butt

in New Hampshire

There are 52 people with the last name "Butt" in New Hampshire.

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Ranking in New Hampshire

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Butt 3,052
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  1. is 3,048th most common Aylward
  2. is 3,049th most common Beauchamp
  3. is 3,050th most common Block
  4. is 3,051st most common Bushway
  5. is 3,052nd most common Butt
  6. is 3,053rd most common Colman
  7. is 3,054th most common Corbeil
  8. is 3,055th most common Coutermarsh
  9. is 3,056th most common Creamer

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Butt

Jonathan, Rebecca, Stephen, Betty, Carl, Harold, Lawrence, Marie, Peter, Wallace

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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