Butt is the shortened Punjabi form of the Kashmiri clan Bhatiyacharia butts and bhats are the same clan
Are you sure...???? Bhatticharia has different short version, in India, its Bhat. In Pakistan, its Bhatti. I know this for a fact, the tour guide we used to get, was a Bhatti, and the owner of the Guest house we stayed at, was also a Bhatti!!!! So I've heard the same story and validated it a few time.
Butt (from a couple that I've met through work and travel life), was derived for people who did "Hunting" and lived near the Archery Fields (kind of like how someone is called a "Knight" or a "Warrior" in different cultures with associated local language names).
The same "Butt" also exists in the British empire across the world, and thus, was spread throughout India, and other countries by the Britis. It was a designation given to Kashmiri's, and others in British Army in like 1800's, to those who practiced Archery as a profession, eventually used it as their last name to reflect their trade / profession as an "Honor". Just like you see people with names around the world like Silverman, Blacksmith, Goldman, etc, etc.
Here, some definition for you:
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Archery butt
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butt is an
archery shooting field, with mounds of earth used for the targets. The name originally referred to the targets themselves, but over time came to mean the platforms that held the targets as well. For instance
Othello, V,ii,267 mentions "Here is my journey's end, here is my butt". In medieval times, it was compulsory for all
yeomen in
England to learn archery; see for example
An Act concerning shooting in Long Bows, passed in the 3rd year of
Henry VIII.
Several English towns have districts called "The Butts", but they may not always take their names from archery. The
Middle English word "butt" referred to an abutting strip of land, and is often associated with medieval field systems.
[1] An example is
Newington Butts in south London where contrary to popular belief, the 1955
Survey of London published by London County Council could find no historical reference to archery butts.
[2] It concluded that the name probably derived from the triangle of land between the roads, as the word "butts" is used elsewhere in Surrey to refer to odd corners or ends of land.
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The word is also used today for the earthwork mounds on, or before, which targets are mounted on a rifle range, with the object of stopping the flight of bullets beyond the range. The name Butt is also a common surname for people living around the Archery Fields, referring to the profession.
Butt is a German and an English surname whose origins lie in the
South West peninsula region of
England.The surname can also be found in England where it is again of patronymic origin, meaning "son of Butt". First found in
Middlesex where they were anciently seated, and were granted lands by
William the Conqueror, and recorded in the
Domesday Book compiled in 1086. The name spread as the British Empire spread to many countries, where British called locals working on or around archery shooting fields "Butt".
