Name

Name BUTT

Between 2000 and 2022 there were 1 birth of Butt in the countries below, which represents an average of 0 birth of children bearing the first name Butt per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 0 birth.

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Information about the first name Butt

The first name Butt has been assigned to:

100.00% to boys
0.00% to girls

The country where the first name Butt is the most common is:

Germany

This first name is on trend: Male

This first name has 4 letters including 1 vowel and 3 consonants

Butt in Japanese ^*

Romaji	butto
Katakana	ブット
Hiragana	ぶっと
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Origin and meaning of name Butt

English

Etymology

As an English surname, from Middle English butte (“target, goal”), from French but (“target, aim”).
Also as an English surname, from butte (“isolated hill”).
Also as an English surname, from butt (sense 3) (“cask, bottle”).
Also as an English surname, from a nickname related to butt (sense 1) (“thick end”).
As an English and German surname, from butt (sense 4) (“type of flounder”).
As a Kashmiri surname, spelling variant of Bhatt.

Etymology

From Middle English butten, from Anglo-Norman buter, boter (“to push, butt, strike”), from Frankish *bautan (“to hit, beat”), from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to beat, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewd- (“to beat, push, strike”). Cognate with Old English bēatan (“to beat”). More at beat.

Etymology

From Middle English bit, bitte, bytte, butte (“leather bottle”), from Old English bytt, byt and Old French boute (“cask”) and other etymologies on this page, all from Late Latin buttis.

Etymology

From Middle English but, butte, botte (“flounder; plaice; turbot”), possibly derived from sense 1 (“blunt end”), meaning "blunt-headed fish." Compare Dutch bot and the second element of English halibut.
Cognate with West Frisian bot, German Low German Butt, German Butt, Butte, Swedish butta.

Etymology

Originally apparently a less-desired cut, named either due to its often being packed in butts (“casks”) for storage and shipping, or from the use of butt to refer to "the larger or thicker end of something, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end" or "the waste end".

Etymology (Verb)

butt (third-person singular simple present butts, present participle butting, simple past and past participle butted)
To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.

Etymology (Noun)

butt (plural butts)
A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
A thrust in fencing.
To prove who gave the fairer butt, / John shows the chalk on Robert's coat.

Etymology (Verb)

butt (third-person singular simple present butts, present participle butting, simple past and past participle butted)
(transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
(intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.

Etymology (Noun)

butt (plural butts)
(English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun; equivalent to the pipe.
A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.

Etymology (Alternative forms)

Etymology (Noun)

butt (plural butts)
(Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot

Etymology (Noun)

butt (plural butts)
(dated, West Country and Ireland) A heavy two-wheeled cart.
(dated, West Country and Ireland) A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.

Etymology (Noun)

butt (plural butts)
The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.

Alternative forms

Butte

Pronunciation

(UK, General American) enPR: bŭt, IPA(key): /bʌt/
Rhymes: -ʌt
Homophone: but

Proper noun

Butt (plural Butts)
A surname.
A surname from English.
A surname from German.
A surname from Kashmiri.

German

Etymology

Borrowed from German Low German Butt, from Middle Low German but, butte, from Old Saxon *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“stumpy”). Cognate with Dutch bot and with English butt, in all senses.
Apparently this word had the primitive meaning of being a stump, i. e. being flattened by reason of beating, whereby the root might be identified with the one of English beat and German bossen, bosseln.

Noun

Butt m (strong, genitive Buttes or Butts, plural Butte)
(Northern Germany) European flounder (Platichthys flesus)
lefteye flounder (fish of the family Bothidae)
turbot (fish of the family Scophthalmidae)

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /bʊt/

Noun (Derived terms)

Heilbutt
Steinbutt

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German butt, bott.

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Etymology (Adjective)

butt (neuter singular butt, definite singular and plural butte, comparative buttare, indefinite superlative buttast, definite superlative buttaste)
blunt (not sharp)
(vinkel) obtuse (angle between 90 and 180 degrees)

Etymology (Verb)

butt
past participle of bu

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German butt, bott.

Adjective

butt (neuter singular butt, definite singular and plural butte, comparative buttere, indefinite superlative buttest, definite superlative butteste)
blunt (not sharp)
(vinkel) obtuse (angle between 90 and 180 degrees)

Pronunciation