as a Last Name
- 863
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Arbuthnot
Meaning & Origins
Scottish and northern Irish: habitational name from a place called Arbuthnott, south of Aberdeen, earlier Aberbuthnot, a Pictish place name from aber ‘confluence’ + the stream name Buadhnat (the Gaelic form) meaning ‘virtuous’ or ‘healing’, i.e. the stream was regarded as holy, with healing properties.
| 29,833rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 863
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Arbuthnot per capita
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