Butler
Butler is a boy's name that peaked in 1919, when it was the 1,264th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 1996. About 180 Butlers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 73.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Butler
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 987
- Estimated living today
- 180
- Median age today
- 73
- Peak year
- 1919
- Best rank
- 1,264th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Butlers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 987 babies given the name since 1880, about 180 are alive — 18 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1952 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
From Middle English Butler.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Butlers
- Butler Lampson (born 1943)American computer scientist
People named Butler with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Butler is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Butler is most concentrated in South Carolina (32.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1919
The most popular boys’ names the year Butler peaked:
Related names
Butler against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.