Butters
See also: butters
English
Etymology 1
A variant of Butter, or alternatively an occupational surname for a worker in a wine cellar, from Norman boterie (“wine cellar”) + genitive -s.
Proper noun
Butters (countable and uncountable, plural Butterses)
- A surname from Norman.
- A census-designated place in Bladen County, North Carolina, United States.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Butters is the 10593rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3025 individuals. Butters is most common among White (91.14%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Butters”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 262.
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