Otting

Name: Otting: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-09-12

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Otting 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: from the Germanic Rufname Otto / Otfrit-type short form.

rarermore common

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 ◐

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Oetting8.1K

Locally spelled Oetting in DE Germany, GB United Kingdom, CD Congo - Kinshasa and 7 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●

from the Germanic Rufname Otto / Otfrit-type short form

Sources 1

Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Otting is recorded, by country
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
BZ Belize	—	18	44 rec.	—	—	Otting	1
NG Nigeria	—	18	18 rec.	—	—	Oetting	1
SG Singapore	—	17	29 rec.	—	—	Otting	1
SV El Salvador	—	16	16 rec.	—	—	Otting	2
PK Pakistan	—	16	17 rec.	—	—	Oetting	1
MA Morocco	—	15	17 rec.	—	—	Oetting	1
AT Austria	—	15	11 rec.	—	—	Oetting	8
BR Brazil	—	10	10 rec.	—	—	Otting	2
ES Spain	—	6	10 rec.	—	—	Oetting	1
BE Belgium	—	5	13 rec.	1 in 2.3M	5	Otting	1
CH Switzerland	—	4	7 rec.	1 in 2.1M	4	Oetting	3
PL Poland	—	3	8 rec.	1 in 13M	3	—	1
EE Estonia	—	—	—	—	listed	—	—

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

English6.7K77%
German6988%
Swahili1842%
Spanish1842%
1742%

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Languages in which the name is recorded
Name	Records	Note
English	6,687	77%
German	698	8%
Swahili	184	2%
Spanish	184	2%
	174	2%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Otting is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Norwegian Bokmål surname228 records spelled Otting6 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Norway, United States, Denmark
Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian, Danish
Also written Ötting
a separate surname200 records spelled Otting2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States
Also written Ötting
French surname44 records spelled Otting2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, France
Also written Ötting

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Otting is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

In German, Patronymischer Name mit -ing-Suffix zu Rufname Otto; 96 Bearer.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●

Hanne Ottingb. 1931DKDanish drawer and painter
Joseph Ottingb. 1962USPresident/CEO of bank
Gottfried OttingCHresearcher
Nick Ottingbotanist

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 10 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Otting
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010	2010	824	#28,856
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020	2020	813	#30,686
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000	2000	806	#28,005
NO Norway	SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)	—	116	#13,352
NL Netherlands	CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)	2007	102	#18,733
BE Belgium	Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)	2008	5	#99,983
EE Estonia	Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023	2023	—	—
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.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Otting?: We estimate roughly 1.1 thousand people bear Otting (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Otting have the most bearers?: Otting is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled oetting.
How common is Otting compared with other names?: In the Seychelles, Otting is the 5th most common surname of 1,716 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Otting mean?: Recorded meaning: from the Germanic Rufname Otto / Otfrit-type short form

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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot 2026-09-12. 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.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Otting” — the 5th most common surname in Seychelles. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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