American Family Name Origins:
Tarbutton
Frequency: (208)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English (Yorkshire and Northumberland): unexplained. Probably a habitational name from an unidentified or lost place in northern England, or possibly from Tarbolton in Ayrshire, Scotland.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
