Butte is used as a family name or surname in Ireland, Germany, England. It is 5 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Butte
No. of characters: 5
Origin: Ireland, Germany, England
Meaning:

The variant of Bute. A great island of Scotland.

Lastname Butte is variant form of Bott. Local—in the Hundred Rolls De Botte, county of Norfolk. Perhaps, sometimes the German bote, messenger. Scholars think Botton, Botten, Botting, etc., modifications of the same word.

Lastname is a variation of the Butt. But—the name of several places in the arrondissement of Falaise.

How popular is Butte?

Butte is common in India, United States, Thailand, Germany.

Butte is ranked 97138 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Butte bearers increased by 1.2 per cent in 2010 US census to 589 since 2000, the surname slipped by 1407 spots and ranked at 37735. The last name was found in around 2 per million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 81.66 82.99
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 5.6 3.78
Hispanic or Latino 5.26 4.12
American Indian and Alaska Native 3.9 2.58
Others 2.04 4.81
Black 1.53 1.72
Butte is quite popular family name mostly used in India while Thailand is ahead in terms of density. Around 4888 people have been found who wears Butte as their family name. Butte is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with thousands of Butte:
14,911 India2,963
Countries with hundreds of Butte:
36,079 United States872
25,303 Thailand446
35,419 Germany215
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
42,221 Argentina72
72,628 Italy55
56,910 Canada52
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
120,092 Brazil47
90,148 Iran26
60,801 Netherlands20
184,366 Philippines16
23,887 Chile13
61,272 Pakistan12
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
293,169 France10
158,774 England10
157,966 South Africa9
436,635 Russia8
10,175 Trinidad and Tobago6
146,780 Australia6
156,558 Poland6

Immigrants to US

From Germany

Laborer Heinrich Butte from Germany aboard the Alfred from Bremen. He is registered to be 18 years old when he arrived in USA on December 11, 1852. 20 years old Andreas Butte, August Butte (26) Butcher, Sophie Butte (17), Wilhelmine Butte (16), Student Herm. Butte, 50 years old Anna-Catharine Butte, 13 years old Elisabeth Butte, Farmer Joh.Werner Butte, and 7 other Butte majority of whom were laborer and others worked as farmer migrated to US from Bremen, Bremerhaven, Bremen & Southampton and Bremen & Bremerhaven.

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