Where Does the Nute Surname Come From?

Nute is a spelling of the English surname Nutt. The name is usually explained as “Descendant of Canute (kind, race)”.

Spelling and variants

Before spelling was fixed, Nutt was also written Nute. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

The 2010 census count for Nute in the United States was 674, good for rank 33,772. That puts it inside the top 50,000 US surnames.

Heraldry is personal: arms associated with the Nutt surname were borne by specific families, and sharing the name does not mean sharing the blazon.

Get the complete Nute report, with a museum-style coat of arms.