Family name origins & meanings
- French : occupational name for a wine steward or butler, usually the chief servant of a medieval household, from Old French bouteillier, ‘butler’. This name is often Americanized as Butler.
- A bearer of the name from Brittany is documented in Boucherville, Quebec, in 1686; another, from La Rochelle, is recorded in Montreal in 1695, with the secondary surname Tétu.