Butt

At the 2020 census, 7,256 Americans bore the surname Butt — 4,732nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 41,200.

By the numbers

People: 7,256
Rank: 4,732nd
How common: 1 in 41,200
Per 100,000: 2.4

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, from Middle English butte (“target, goal”), from French but (“target, aim”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 47.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 44.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Black, not Hispanic 2.3%
Hispanic or Latino 1.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Butt

Hans-Jörg Butt (born 1974)German association football player
Nicky Butt (born 1975)English footballer
Clara Butt (1873–1936)British singer
Jahangir Butt (1943–2021)Pakistani field hockey player
Isaac Butt (1813–1879)British politician
Archibald Butt (1865–1912)Military aide to Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft

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

Surnames like Butt

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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.