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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from a farm named Botner, from Old Norse botn ‘small valley’, ‘end of a valley’.
  • Respelling of the North German occupational name Bottner or Böttner ‘cooper’. Compare Buettner.

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