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語源

Various origins:

• From butter, a metonymic occupational surname for a dairyman or seller of butter.
• From Old French butor (“bittern”), a nickname for someone who resembled a bittern, perhaps because of his voice.
• Borrowed from Dutch and German Butter, possibly a short form of various compound names.

固有名詞

Butter (plural Butters)

1. A surname.

統計情報

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Butter is the 39164 most common surname in the United States, belonging to 562 individuals. Butter is most common among White (72.95%) and Black/African American (10.14%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Butter”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 262.