Button Family History
Button Name Meaning
English:: metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of buttons from Old French bo(u)ton ‘knob lump’ specialized to mean ‘button’. Compare Butner . habitational name from Booton in Norfolk named with either the Old English personal name Bōta or the Old Norse personal name Bō + tūn ‘settlement’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022