Butts

At the 2020 census, 21,337 Americans bore the surname Butts — 1,634th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 14,000.

By the numbers

People: 21,337
Rank: 1,634th
How common: 1 in 14,000
Per 100,000: 7.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 63.1%
Black, not Hispanic 29.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Butts

Alfred Mosher Butts (1899–1993)American designer and architect; creator of Scrabble
Seymore Butts (born 1964)American pornographic filmmaker
James Butts (born 1950)American triple jumper

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

Surnames like Butts

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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.