Butch
The boy's name Butch has been in the national records since 1919, with 3,423 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 2,500 Butches are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 64.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Butch
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,423
- Estimated living today
- 2,500
- Median age today
- 64
- Peak year
- 1956
- Best rank
- 643rd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1919
How old the living Butches are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,423 babies given the name since 1919, about 2,500 are alive — 72 in every hundred. Roughly 70 of them are children and 1,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1961 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Butchs
- Butch Cassidy (1866–1908)American Old West outlaw
- Butch Otter (born 1942)American politician
- Butch Hartman (born 1965)American animator
- Butch Vig (born 1955)American musician and record producer
- Butch Reynolds (born 1964)American sprinter
- Butch Walker (born 1969)American musician and record producer
- Butch Johnson (1955–2024)archer
- Butch Moore (1938–2001)Irish singer
People named Butch with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Butch is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Butch is most concentrated in Georgia (3.2×), Tennessee (2.4×), Texas (2.2×), Oklahoma (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1956
The most popular boys’ names the year Butch peaked:
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Butch against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.