as a Last Name
- 234,021
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Butler
Meaning & Origins
English and Irish: from a word that originally denoted a wine steward, usually the chief servant of a medieval household, from Norman French butuiller (Old French bouteillier, Latin buticularius, from buticula ‘bottle’). In the large households of royalty and the most powerful nobility, the title came to denote an officer of high rank and responsibility, only nominally concerned with the supply of wine, if at all.
| 96th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 234,021
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- District of Columbia
- has the most people named Butler per capita
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