Butta
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bʌtə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Butta is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 2M(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway≈1 in 3.6M
- ESSpain≈1 in 3.9M
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0M (inferred from the name graph)
≈56 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Butta 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 6M | 374 | Butta | 34 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Butta | 13 |
| IT Italy | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 2M | listed | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 4.3M | — | Butta | 6 |
| ES Spain | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | 22 | Butta | 6 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 17 | — | — |
| NO Norway | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | 8 | — | — |
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 2000; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Butta is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In klj, alternative form of bûta (“shrub, bush”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, third-person singular past historic of butter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mak, earth, ground, land
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Swedish, synonym of knuffa
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In odt, barrel, tub
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bar, butter
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)
- Calogero Buttàb. 1951ITItalian actor
- Tomáš Buttab. 1958CZCzech Hussite bishop, Patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church and theologist
- Carmen Buttab. 1962DEGerman journalist
- Mattia Buttab. 1980ITItalian engineer and politician
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 23 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 374 | #52,174 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 360 | #60,433 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 314 | #63,524 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 22 | #79,402 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 22 | #78,058 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 17 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 17 | #97,659 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 13 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 13 | #114,236 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #62,980 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Butta?
- A machine transcription gives /bʌtə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Butta a male or female name?
- Butta 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.
- In which country does Butta have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 56 people named Butta in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled butta.
- How common is the name Butta?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Butta in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.
What do you want to know about Butta?
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/buttaThe 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, “Butta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.