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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant spelling of Butler.
  • German : occupational name for a village tavern owner, from French bouteillier ‘butler’.
  • Respelling of the German habitational name Buttlar, from a place so named in Thuringia.

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