Wooten

surname · English · Latin script

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

Wooten is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Liberia it is the 4th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Variant of Wootton.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 11K◐
  • CACanada1 in 21K
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 27K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈31K ●

across 1 country

Sources
379 ●

291K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 11K ◐

United States

Meaning & origin●

Variant of Wootton.

Sources 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Wooten is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#95031,249257K rec.1 in 11K31KWooten379
GB United Kingdom—8,4848.6K rec.——Wooten49
CA Canada—3,4873.6K rec.——Wooten24
AU Australia—2,4402.4K rec.——Wooten45
IT Italy—1,3031.4K rec.——Wooten10
DE Germany—965957 rec.——Wooten36
RU Russia—789832 rec.——Wooten12
LR Liberia#46852.4K rec.——Wooten3
BR Brazil—577569 rec.——Wooten11
MY Malaysia—541560 rec.——Wooten7
IE Ireland—486493 rec.——Wooten3
SG Singapore—474495 rec.——Wooten3

Roughly 31K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 11K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • English282K86%
  • 13K4%
  • Spanish9.1K3%
  • German2.3K1%
  • French2.2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English281,63686%
12,5134%
Spanish9,0513%
German2,3011%
French2,1851%

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◐

Wooten is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname226 records spelled Wooten5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Türkiye, United Kingdom

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Вутен

44 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.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Dudley G. Wooten, b. 1860Future Man, b. 1957Victor Wooten, b. 1964John J. Wooten, b. 1965Shawn Wooten, b. 1972Rob Wooten, b. 1985Andrew Wooten, b. 1989Khalid Wooten, b. 1990Kenny Wooten, b. 1998

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 7 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Wooten
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201031K#1,123
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200030K#1,060
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202030K#1,172
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—5#8,377
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 · 5 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Wooten?
We estimate roughly 31 thousand people bear Wooten (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
In which country does Wooten have the most bearers?
We estimate about 31 thousand people bear Wooten in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled wooten.
How common is Wooten compared with other names?
In the United States, Wooten is the 950th most common surname of 7,257,200 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Wooten mean?
Recorded meaning: Variant of Wootton.
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About this data

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

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.

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, “Wooten” — the 950th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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