Butera

Borrowed from Italian Butera.

Butera (plural Buteras)

1. A surname from Italian.
   • 2023 November 22, Catherine E. Shoichet, Thomas Lake, “A migrant crossed the border and found a scared, 9-year-old Arizona boy alone in the desert. The encounter changed them both”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 2 March 2024:

     When Chris Buchleitner was still a baby, his parents made a plan for the worst-case scenario. His dad, Jack Buchleitner, came from a huge Catholic family in Pittsburgh — he was one of 10 children — and one day Jack and Dawn called Jack’s sister Mary Butera with an unusual request.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Butera is the 10758^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2965 individuals. Butera is most common among White (94.84%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Butera”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 261.

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• IPA^(key): /buˈtɛ.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Hyphenation: Bu‧tè‧ra

Butera f

1. a town in the province of Caltanissetta, Sicily, Italy

Butera m or f by sense

1. a surname transferred from the place name

• Stefano Ravara, Mappa dei Cognomi, 2015–2026