First name origin & meaning: Old English: Hut First name variations: Boothe, Boote, Boot, Bothe Last name origins & meanings:
- Northern English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who
lived in a small hut or bothy, Middle English both(e),
especially a cowman or shepherd. The word is of Scandinavian origin
(compare Old Danish bōth, Old Norse būð) and
was used to denote various kinds of temporary shelter, typically a
cowshed or a herdsman’s hut. In the British Isles the surname is still
more common in northern England, where Scandinavian influence was more
marked, and in Scotland, where the word was borrowed into Gaelic as
both(an).
- Robert Booth (1604–72) is mentioned in the colonial records of
Exeter, NH, in 1645. He subsequently moved to ME.
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