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Butch

Boys' name

Manly, masculine

Butch has been given to 3,423 babies in the U.S. since 1919. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1956, with 139 recorded.

Babies named Butch, 2024

1 in 478,000

Butch over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Butch: meaning, origin, and history

Manly, masculine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Butch means

Butch means “manly, masculine”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Butch is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈbʊt͡ʃ/ for Butch.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,423 boys were recorded with the name Butch between 1919 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 139 in 1956; its best national rank was #630 in 1952.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Butch?

Butch had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 246,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Butch sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Butch. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Butchs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Butch was born before 1958 — so the typical Butch is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
34.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,714
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1950s — 34.7% of all recorded uses (1,189).

Is Butch rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1956 (139)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#630
1952

Spellings of Butch

Butch is not the most common spelling — Buck is, with 32.4% against Butch's 16.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Butch is used

Across 1910–2025, Butch was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 111,608 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 50,000
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 50,000
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 50,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in 100,000
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Butch has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Butch around the world

Where Butch ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    2006–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Butch

People whose public names include Butch, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Butch by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#630
1952
Peak year
1956
139 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
3,423
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Butch

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Butch

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Butch, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Butch

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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