The name Butvydonys comes from an archaic Lithuanian personal nameButvydas.[2]
References
^"2001 census"(PDF) (in Lithuanian). Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Archived from the original(PDF) on July 23, 2011. Retrieved May 5, 2010.
^Šimkus, Šarūnas (2023). Varėnos krašto vietovardžių etimologinis žodynas (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Liutauras Leščinskas. p. 14. ISBN978-609-447-388-3.