Butler (surname)

Butler is a surname that has been associated with many different places and people. It can be either:

an Anglicisation of the French surname Boutilier, Bouthillier,^[1]^[2] a cognate of the English name.
an English occupational name that originally denoted a servant in charge of the wine cellar, from the Norman French word butuiller.^[1] It eventually came to be used to describe a servant of high responsibility in a noble household, mostly leaving behind its association with the supply of wine.^[1]
in Ireland, a noble family and dynasty associated with the counties of Tipperary, Kilkenny and parts of County Carlow.^[2]
an Anglicisation of German or Swiss-German surnames including Beutler, Bütler, Beidler.^[3]

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^ "Beidler (Beitler, Beutler, Butler, Beudler, Beuthler, Beuttler, Bütler) family", Harold H Hartzler, Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online, vol. 1, p. 266