Butcher

Butcher is the 1,606th most common surname in the United States, shared by 21,742 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 13,700.

By the numbers

People: 21,742
Rank: 1,606th
How common: 1 in 13,700
Per 100,000: 7.3

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Butcher described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 81.3%
Black, not Hispanic 8.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Butcher

Terry Butcher (born 1958)English footballer and manager
Jim Butcher (born 1971)American author
Paul Butcher (born 1994)American actor
Abdullah the Butcher (born 1941)Canadian professional wrestler
Finn Butcher (born 1995)New Zealand slalom canoeist
John C. Butcher (born 1933)New Zealand mathematician
Will Butcher (born 1995)American professional ice hockey defenceman
Bilinda Butcher (born 1961)English rock musician

People named Butcher with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Butcher

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.