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The BUTCHER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 22,077 1478 0.008 82
United States (1880 census) 5,238 1161 0.01 105
Change since 1880 +16839 -317 -0.002 -23
Other Countries
Australia 3,110 494 0.019 190
United Kingdom 14,868 397 0.032 324
Top States for BUTCHER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 2,388 527 0.021 210
California 1,597 2065 0.005 47
Texas 1,317 1913 0.006 63
West Virginia 1,158 200 0.064 640
Florida 1,152 1856 0.007 72
Top States for BUTCHER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 1,158 200 0.064 640
Delaware 170 814 0.022 217
Ohio 2,388 527 0.021 210
Utah 426 717 0.019 191
Alaska 118 666 0.019 188

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

Classification and Origin of BUTCHER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BUTCHER 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 BUTCHER 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 BUTCHER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 419 1.9
Mixed Race 373 1.69
Native American/Alaskan 210 0.95
Asian/Pacific 79 0.36
White (Caucasian) 19,147 86.73
Black/African American 1,850 8.38

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

Meaning of BUTCHER in historical publications

BUTCHER. The occupation, Le Bocher, H.R. Some of the older forms are easilj' confounded with Bourchier. In ancient times this was a title of honour bestowed by the French on great warriors ! See Eng. Surn. i. 121.

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 BUTCHER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BUTCHER.

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 BUTCHER

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