Butler

Butler is the 112th most common surname in the United States, shared by 208,167 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 1,436.

By the numbers

People: 208,167
Rank: 112th
How common: 1 in 1,436
Per 100,000: 69.6

Where the name comes from

From the surname.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 60.3%
Black, not Hispanic 30.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Butler

Judith Butler (born 1956)American feminist gender studies philosopher
Gerard Butler (born 1969)Scottish actor and film producer
Samuel Butler (1835–1902)English novelist and critic
Austin Butler (born 1991)American actor
Nicholas Murray Butler (1862–1947)American philosopher, diplomat, and educator
Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006)American science fiction writer
Geezer Butler (born 1949)English bassist
Josephine Butler (1828–1906)British feminist and social reformer fighting to end child prostitution

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

Surnames like Butler

Also a first name

Butler has been given to 987 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1919. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.