Oetting
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Oetting is a surname, most frequently recorded in Germany. In the Seychelles it is the 5th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Patronymischer Name mit -ing-Suffix zu Rufname Otto; 293+74 Bearer.
- DEGermany1 in 69K◐
- USUnited States1 in 404K
- SCSeychelles1 in 2.3K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.1K ●
- Sources
- 167 ●
- 1 in 47K ◐
across 6 countries
16K records
Official registry-verified
Norway
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Otting in US United States, NL Netherlands, IT Italy and 10 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Patronymischer Name mit -ing-Suffix zu Rufname Otto; 293+74 Bearer.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | 1,608 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Oetting | 52 |
| US United States | — | 824 | 12K rec. | 1 in 404K | 868 | Otting | 167 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 363 | 350 rec. | — | — | Oetting | 18 |
| IT Italy | — | 253 | 254 rec. | — | — | Otting | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | 205 | 214 rec. | — | — | Otting | 14 |
| AU Australia | — | 179 | 169 rec. | — | — | Otting | 16 |
| NO Norway | — | 116△ | 13 rec. | 1 in 47K | 116 | Otting | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 102 | 138 rec. | 1 in 169K | 102 | Otting | 15 |
| SC Seychelles | #5 | 91 | 195 rec. | — | — | Otting | 1 |
| IN India | — | 89 | 101 rec. | — | — | Otting | 2 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | 68 | 68 rec. | — | — | Oetting | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 20 | 21 rec. | — | — | Oetting | 3 |
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Languages●
- English6K65%
- German1.4K15%
- Norwegian6607%
- Spanish4545%
- 1482%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 6,027 | 65% |
| German | 1,427 | 15% |
| Norwegian | 660 | 7% |
| Spanish | 454 | 5% |
| 148 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Hermann Oettingb. 1937DEGerman politician
- Dirk Walther Oettingb. 1938DEGerman non-fiction writer
- Andreas Oettingb. 1969DEGerman university teacher
- Thomas A. OettingUSresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 868 | #29,082 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 815 | #29,093 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 611 | #34,949 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #279,505 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 7 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Oetting?
- We estimate roughly 1.1 thousand people bear Oetting (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Oetting have the most bearers?
- Oetting is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled oetting.
- How common is Oetting compared with other names?
- In the Seychelles, Oetting is the 5th most common surname of 1,716 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Oetting mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronymischer Name mit -ing-Suffix zu Rufname Otto; 293+74 Bearer.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Oetting” — the 5th most common surname in Seychelles. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.