Garbutt is a surname associated with English-speaking culture.
Etymology
In origin, ''Garbutt'' is a
personal name
A personal name, or full name, in onomastic terminology also known as prosoponym (from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον / ''prósōpon'' - person, and ὄνομα / ''onoma'' - name), is the set of names by which an individual person is known ...
. It (and the variants ''Garbut'', ''Garbett'', ''Garbet'', ''Garbert'', ''Garbould'', ''Gorbold'', ''Gorbutt'', ''Gorbett'', ''Gorbert'', ''Carbett'', ''Carbert'', ''Carbutt'', ''Carbould'', and ''Carbott'') come from several different names which were brought to England by settlers associated with the
Norman conquest: ''Gerbold'', ''Gerbert'', and ''Gerbod''. All these names themselves came into use among the Normans by borrowing from
Continental Germanic
South Germanic is a term used for a number of proposed groupings of the Germanic tribes or Germanic languages, dialects. However, it is not widely used and has no agreed definition.
Uses
The following uses of the term "South Germanic" are found:
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, and became confused with one another already in the Middle Ages.
Distribution
In the spelling ''Garbutt'', the name was borne by 2163 people in the
1881 Census of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom Census of 1881 recorded the people residing in every household on the night of Sunday 3 April 1881, and was the fifth of the UK censuses to include details of household members.
Data recorded
Details collected include: address, ...
, mostly in Yorkshire and County Durham, particularly in the
North Riding. As of around 2016, 2877 people bore the name in Great Britain and 72 in Ireland.
[''The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland'', ed. by Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, and Peter McClure, 4 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), II, p. 1010 .v. ''Garbutt'' .]
Notable people
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Arthur M. Garbutt
Arthur M. Garbutt was an American architect who practiced in Fort Collins, Colorado and Casper, Wyoming. He worked from approximately 1903 to 1928.
Life and career
He practiced alone and in partnerships Fuller and Garbutt, Garbutt and Weidner ...
, American architect
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George Garbutt (1903–1967), Canadian ice hockey player
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Ian Garbutt
Ian David Garbutt (born 3 April 1972) is an English professional golfer.
Garbutt was born in Doncaster. He started playing golf at the age of 8, and by the age of 16, he had become a scratch player. He won the English Amateur at the age of 18, ...
(born 1972), English golfer
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James Garbutt (1925–2020), British actor
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Joe Garbutt (disambiguation), multiple people
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John Garbutt
John Garbutt (1779 Northumberland, England – 1855 Garbutt, Monroe County, New York) was an American politician from New York.
Life
He was the son of Zachariah Garbutt and Phebe (Nairn) Garbutt. He married Mercy Cady (b. 1788), and they had ...
(ca. 1779–1855), New York politician
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John Garbutt (alderman) (born 1954), British alderman
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Josh Garbutt (born 1984), Canadian professional ice hockey player
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Luke Garbutt (born 1993), English footballer
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Mitch Garbutt (born 1989), Australian rugby league footballer
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Ryan Garbutt
Ryan Jonathan Garbutt (born August 12, 1985) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He last played under contract to ERC Ingolstadt of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL).
Playing career
Undrafted, Garbutt attended Brown University, ...
(born 1985), Canadian ice hockey player
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Sherryl Garbutt (born 1948), Australian politician
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TyJuan Garbutt (born 1999), American football player
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Vin Garbutt (1947–2017), English folk singer and songwriter
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William Garbutt
William Thomas Garbutt (9 January 1883 – 24 February 1964) was an English professional football coach and player. His contribution to Italian football through laying the foundations of player training and coaching popularized the sport in ...
(1883–1964), English football player and coach
References
See also
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Garbutt (disambiguation)
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Surnames of German origin