How Many People Are Named Butch?
people named Butch are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 139,049 people in the US has this name
Based on 3,423 babies named Butch in Social Security records from 1919 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
139 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Butch in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Butch alive today is about 60 years old, and 64% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 51 and 72 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Butch first appears in the records in 1919 and was given most often in 1956, to 139 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1919 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Butch has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #630, in 1952.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #630 (1952) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #676 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Butch alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Butch were born in California than in any other state: about 150 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Butch was given 3.6 times as often in Georgia, 2.8 times in Texas and 2.4 times in Tennessee.
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