Butler Family History
- Butler Name Meaning
- English and Irish: from a word that originally denoted a wine steward, usually the chief servant of a medieval household, from Norman French butuiller (Old French bouteillier, Latin buticularius, from buticula ‘bottle’). In the large households of royalty and the most powerful nobility, the title came to denote an officer of high rank and responsibility, only nominally concerned with the supply of wine, if at all. Anglicized form of French Boutilier. Jewish (from Poland and Ukraine): occupational name for a bottle maker, from Yiddish butl ‘bottle’ + the agent suffix -er.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 8,021,122 Historical Documents with Butler on Ancestry
- 2,629,539 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,623,112 Census and Voter Lists
- 295,135 Military Records
- 147,057 Immigration Records
- 3,326,279 Member Trees
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Number of Butler families
 1,747 - 3,492  583 - 1,746 |
 1 - 582  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Butler families
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156 - 310 53 - 155 |
1 - 52 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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