Botten

See also: botten and bøtten

English

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɒtən/

Proper noun

Botten (plural Bottens)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Botten is the 52736^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 393 individuals. Botten is most common among White (91.09%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Botten”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 203.

Anagrams

• Betton, botnet