English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from places
named Butterworth in Lancashire (near Rochdale) and in West
Yorkshire. Both are so named with Old English butere ‘butter’ +
worð ‘enclosure’. The surname is recorded from an early date
in each of these two places; it probably arose independently in each.
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