Butt
in South Carolina
There are 25 people with the last name "Butt" in South Carolina.
Ranking in South Carolina
| Name | Rank |
|---|---|
| Butt | 10,810 |
Similar Names and Nicknames
Butts, Butterfield, Button, Butterworth, Bott, Betty, Butters, Batt, Buttram, Buttler
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Meaning & History
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
