Bute

Meaning

Proper Noun

• Any of a number of towns in English-speaking countries
• island in the bay, Firth of Clyde and part of Argyll and Bute (council area) Scotland (constituent country).
• former county Scotland (constituent country), comprising the islands of Bute, Arran and the Cumbraes, also called Buteshire and Bute and Arran
• A Scottish marquisate.

Origin

• Perhaps a variant of Butt.