The butter Surname
butter Name Meaning and History
- English: nickname for someone with some fancied resemblance to a bittern, perhaps in the booming quality of the voice, from Middle English, Old French butor ‘bittern’ (a word of obscure etymology).
- English and German: metonymic occupational name for a dairyman or seller of butter, from Old English butere ‘butter’, Middle High German buter.
- German: possibly a short form of any of the various compound names formed with Butter ‘butter’ (see 2).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Do I have Scottish ancestors? Who can tell me if that is true? | Ron Butter | 3 |
| Family history | Chuck Butter | 13 |
| Henry Butter(s) from England |
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| Dr Butter Staffordshire |
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| Butter - Sanborn |
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| ISO Roy Butter |
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| BUTTER in Romania Bucharest |
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| Margaret BUTTER marr. William TOSH, Dundee | Sue Hembury-Kellow | 5 |
| Thomas Butter ~ Banished to America in 1716 |
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| Frank Butter? London England - 1901 |
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