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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Lancashire and Yorkshire) : habitational name from places named Butterworth in Lancashire (near Rochdale) and in West Yorkshire. Both are so named with Old English butere ‘butter’ + worð ‘enclosure’. The surname is recorded from an early date in each of these two places; it probably arose independently in each.

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