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Butt

in West Virginia

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

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Butt 5,581
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  4. is 5,580th most common Britner
  5. is 5,581st most common Butt
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  8. is 5,584th most common Clough
  9. is 5,585th most common Cobun

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Butt

Billy, Duane, John, Richard, Roy, Sherry, Belva, Brian, Chris, Christopher

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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