Butkus
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbətkɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Butkus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 875Kas Буткус(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 40K
- FIFinland1 in 64K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Butkus itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- 1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
1,157 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Буткус in RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Plg. lat. Buikas (LAG 532), Builęis (ten pat, 435, 500, 504, 525). Galbūt sietina su brus. Буйка, Буйко (M. Бирыла, 1969, c. 65), rus. Буйко (H. Тупиков, 1903, c. 68)
Sources 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Butkus 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.
1,157 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Adolfas Butkusb. 1906LTLithuanian ballet dancer (1906-1996)
- Carl Butkusb. 1922USAmerican football player (1922-1978)
- Viktoras Butkusb. 1923LTLithuanian priest (1923-1993)
- Fabijonas Saulius Butkusb. 1939LTLithuanian engineer and economist (1939-)
- Dick Butkusb. 1942USAmerican football player (1942–2023)
- Vytautas Butkusb. 1949LTLithuanian rower
- Zenonas Butkusb. 1951LTLithuanian historian
- Džordana Butkutėb. 1968LTnot in their usual nameLithuanian singer
- Darius Butkusb. 1972LTLithuanian association football player
- Goda Butkutėb. 1999LTnot in their usual nameLithuanian pair skater
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 22 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,727 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #22,281 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,166 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 136 | #11,601 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 87 | #14,160 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 36 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 36 | #61,577 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 36 | #16,453 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 27 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 27 | #74,289 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 21 | #22,760 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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
- How do you pronounce Butkus?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbətkɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Butkus have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Butkus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled butkus.
- Where is Butkus most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Butkus is densest in Norway — about 1 in 40 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Butkus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,157 people named Butkus in 2010, about 1 in 288 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Butkus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/butkusThe 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, “Butkus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.