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The BUTTERY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 736 30061 0 3
United States (1880 census) 184 20545 0 4
Change since 1880 +552 -9516 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 187 8006 0.001 11
United Kingdom 1,681 3413 0.004 37
Top States for BUTTERY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 73 5270 0.002 18
Florida 56 26235 0.000 4
Indiana 49 12646 0.001 8
Michigan 47 24247 0.000 5
California 46 42368 0.000 1
Top States for BUTTERY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 73 5270 0.002 18
Oklahoma 44 8115 0.001 13
Maine 11 11126 0.001 9
Indiana 49 12646 0.001 8
Nevada 14 14659 0.001 7

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BUTTERY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BUTTERY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BUTTERY in Kentucky than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BUTTERY by picking someone at random in Kentucky than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BUTTERY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BUTTERY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BUTTERY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BUTTERY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 716 97.28
Mixed Race 8 1.09
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.82
White (Hispanic) 5 0.68
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BUTTERY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of BUTTERY in historical publications

BUTTERY. Probably analogous to Kitchen, Chamber, &c. It may however be a corruption of Botreaux.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to BUTTERY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BUTTERY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BUTTERY

The following words are slight variants of BUTTERY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.