Does anyone have the last name Buth? if so, what nationality are u?

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Does anyone have the last name Buth? if so, what nationality are u?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Buth

Perhaps from an Old Prussian personal name Buth or Butt, or a nickname from Low German but ??dumb??, ??crude??.

variant of Butt 4.

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Butt

1) English: topographic name for someone who lived near a place used for archery practice, from Middle English butte ??mark for archery??, ??target??, ??goal??. In the Middle Ages archery practice was a feudal obligation, and every settlement had its practice area.

2) English: topographic name from Middle English butte ??strip of land abutting on a boundary??, ??short strip or ridge at right angles to other strips in a common field??.

3) English: from Middle English butte, bott ??butt??, ??cask??, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a cooper or as a nickname possibly for a heavy drinker or for a large, fat man.

>>> 4) English: from a Middle English personal name, But(t), of unknown origin, perhaps originally a nickname meaning ??short and stumpy??, and akin to late Middle English butt ??thick end??, ??stump??, ??buttock?? (of Germanic origin).

5) German and English: in both Middle Low German and Middle English the word but(te) denoted various types of marine fish, originally a fish with a blunt head, for example halibut (German Heilbutt) or turbot (German Steinbutt), and the surname may in some cases be a metonymic occupational name for a seller of fish or salt fish.

Kashmiri: variant of Bhatt.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

The Mormons have hundreds of them, in England, Netherlands & Germany.