Bottom Family History
Bottom Name Meaning
English (northern): topographic name for someone who lived in a dell hollow or valley floor from Middle English bot(h)me Old English botm ‘valley bottom’. Compare Botham . Americanized form (mistranslation into English) of French Lafond in which Old French la fond ‘the fountain’ is confused with modern French le fond ‘the bottom’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022