Botten
English edit
Etymology edit
Various origins:
- English metonymic occupational surname for a maker or seller of buttons, from Old French boton (“knob, lump”).
- English topographic surname for someone who lived in a valley, from Old Norse botn (“valley bottom”), or a habitational surname from a place named with this word, like Botton, North Yorkshire.
- Borrowed from Norwegian Botten.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Botten (plural Bottens)
- A surname.
Statistics edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Botten is the 52736th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 393 individuals. Botten is most common among White (91.09%) individuals.
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Botten”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 203.