Zott
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Personal characteristic or occupation: from mhd
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/zɑt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zott is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M
- USUnited States1 in 2.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)
183 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Personal characteristic or occupation: from mhd. zot(t)e 'tuft, fluff'; may denote wool weaver, or a person with shaggy hair/slow gait. Bearer count: 395.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zott counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 183 | 1 in 1.2M | 183 | Zott | 22 |
| US United States | 140 | 1 in 2.4M | 140 | Zott | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
183 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Zott 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, Personal characteristic: from mhd. zotte 'tuft, fleece'; likely 'shaggy-haired' or occupational for a wool weaver; bearer count 395.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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(measured from records)
- Martin Zottb. 1841DEGerman farmer (1841-1929)
- Heide Schützb. 1943ATnot in their usual nameAustrian outfitter and travel writer in Canada
- Stephanie ZottATAustrian association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 183 | #39,509 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 140 | #123,064 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 135 | #118,954 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 120 | #142,049 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #407,587 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Zott come from?
- Personal characteristic or occupation: from mhd. zot(t)e 'tuft, fluff'; may denote wool weaver, or a person with shaggy hair/slow gait. Bearer count: 395. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- How do you pronounce Zott?
- A machine transcription gives /zɑt/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Zott mean?
- Recorded meaning: Personal characteristic or occupation: from mhd.
- In which country does Zott have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 183 people named Zott, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zott.
- Where is Zott most common?
- Zott is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zott?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 183 people named Zott, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zottThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Zott”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.