Botten
English
editEtymology
editVarious 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
editProper noun
editBotten (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: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 203.
Anagrams
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- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Old Norse
- English terms borrowed from Norwegian
- English terms derived from Norwegian
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
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- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English surnames
- English surnames from Norwegian
- English surnames from Old French
- English surnames from Old Norse