Botha Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Spellings drift, and Botha is where Bothe drifted for some families. Name scholars give the meaning as “messenger”.

A variant of Bothe

Records show Botha as one of the forms Bothe took over time. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. Other spellings include Both.

Botha by the numbers

The 2010 census count for Botha in the United States was 434, good for rank 48,628. It sits within the 50,000 most common last names in the country. Names that sound alike, such as Booth, are easily confused in old records.

Botha coat of arms

Arms linked to Bothe and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

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