Bouth Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

Behind the Bouth surname stands Booth, an English name that clerks and families wrote in more than one way. The name is usually explained as “Herdsman, dweller in a hut”.

Spelling and variants

Spelled with “u” instead of “o”, Bouth shows how the same name was heard and written differently. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. Related forms: Boothe and Boothman.

Bouth by the numbers

Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Bothe.

Arms associated with the name

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Bouth, so the heraldry linked to Booth is a starting point, not an automatic right.

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