Meanings
Origin
- Old Norsebotn“valley bottom”
- EnglishBotten
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.
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Botten. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Botten
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