Butch
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Butch by the numbers
Butch was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 139 babies in 1956, so it is a 1950s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Butch
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Butch. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
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