as a Last Name
- 2,166
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Bouton
Meaning & Origins
French: 1. from the Old French oblique case of the Germanic personal name Bodo meaning ‘messenger’, ‘herald’ (see Bothe). 2. nickname for someone with a prominent wart, carbuncle, or boil, from Old French bo(u)ton ‘knob’, ‘lump’, ‘excrescence’ (from bo(u)ter ‘to thrust or strike’). 3. metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of buttons, from Old French bo(u)ton, the same word as in 2, specialized to mean ‘button’.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,166
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Alaska
- has the most people named Bouton per capita
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