Botten

Various origins:

• English metonymic occupational surname for a maker or seller of buttons, variant of Button.
• English topographic surname for someone who lived in a valley, from Old Norse botn (“valley bottom”), or a habitational surname from a place named with this word, like Botton, North Yorkshire. This sense also appears as a Norwegian surname, from the same Old Norse word.

Compare Botner.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɒtən/

Botten (plural Bottens)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Botten is the 52736^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 393 individuals. Botten is most common among White (91.09%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Botten”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 203.

• Betton, botnet

Either from French botte or Polish bot, in both cases ultimately from Old French bote (“boot”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɔtn̩]

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Botten pl (plural only)

1. (Northern Germany, Central Germany, colloquial) boots, shoes

   Synonyms: Stiefel, Schuhe

• “Botten” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Botten” in Duden online