as a Last Name
- 7,727
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Button
Meaning & Origins
English: metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of buttons, from Old French bo(u)ton ‘knob’, ‘lump’, specialized to mean ‘button’. Compare Butner.
| 4,592nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Butts, Butterfield, Butt, Butterworth, Batten, Butters, Buttram, Batton, Buttler, Buttrey
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 7,727
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Vermont
- has the most people named Button per capita
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