Butt is a German and an English surname whose origins lie in the South West peninsula region of England.
Contributing to this mixing of tongues was the fact that medieval scribes spelled words according to sound, ensuring that a person's name would appear differently in nearly every document in which it was recorded.
First found in Middlesex where they were anciently seated, and were granted lands by William the Conqueror, and recorded in the Domesday Book compiled in 1086.
[1] For many English families, the political and religious disarray that plagued their homeland made the frontiers of the New World an attractive prospect.
An early reference to a related surname dates back to 1266 where Conrad Dictus Butze is registered in Freiburg, Germany.