Butch
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bʊtʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Butch is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 32K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 72K
- USUnited States1 in 145K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 316 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Butch, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Butch counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Butch | 3 |
| PH Philippines | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Butch | 80 |
| US United States | 2,292 | 1 in 145K | 2.3K | Butch | 316 |
| CA Canada | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Butch | 56 |
| IT Italy | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Butch | 8 |
| SG Singapore | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Butch | 9 |
| GA Gabon | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 36K | 1 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Butch is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, butch (masculine queer woman) (contrast fem)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Butch Mooreb. 1938IEIrish singer (1938-2001)
- Butch Warrenb. 1939USAmerican musician (1939-2013)
- Butch Otterb. 1942USAmerican politician (born 1942)
- Butch Morrisb. 1947USAmerican cornetist (1947–2013)
- Butch Patrickb. 1953USAmerican actor
- Butch Vigb. 1955USAmerican musician and record producer
- Butch Waltsb. 1955USAmerican tennis player
- Barry Wilmoreb. 1962USnot in their usual nameAmerican astronaut
- Butch Walkerb. 1969USAmerican musician and record producer (born 1969)
- Butch Jamesb. 1979ZASouth African rugby union footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.3K | #6,853 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1956 | 139 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1958 | 124 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1952 | 124 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1957 | 122 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1960 | 119 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1961 | 118 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1950 | 118 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1959 | 116 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1955 | 116 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1953 | 115 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1951 | 115 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Butch mean, and where does it come from?
- Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Butch a male or female name?
- Butch is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Butch?
- A machine transcription gives /bʊtʃ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Butch have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Butch in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled butch.
- How common is the name Butch?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,292 people named Butch in 2020, about 1 in 145 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Butch?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/butchThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Butch”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.