Names

From Swedish by (Old Norse býr) meaning “village” and ström (Old Norse straumr) meaning “stream”.

Variant of O’Byrne.

Variant of Bird.

Derived from Swedish by (Old Norse býr) meaning “village” and qvist (Old Norse kvistr) meaning “twig, branch”.

Variant of Byqvist.

From a nickname meaning “thick, stumpy”, from Middle English butt.

Occupational name derived from Norman French butiller “wine steward”, ultimately from Late Latin butticula “bottle”. A famous bearer of this surname is the fictional character Rhett Butler, created by Margaret Mitchell for her novel Gone with the Wind (1936).

Possibly from a given name that was derived from Lithuanian būti meaning “to be, to exist”.

Occupational name for a butcher, derived from Old French bouchier.

Variant of Busto.