Götting
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Wahrscheinlich Ableitung zu einstämmiger Kurzform mit Stammvokal o; im Text nur angeschnitten
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/ɡœtɪŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Götting is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 68K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 765Kas Goetting
- SESweden≈1 in 198K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Götting itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Goetting in US United States, GB United Kingdom, IT Italy and 3 more and Gotting in AR Argentina, SE Sweden.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Wahrscheinlich Ableitung zu einstämmiger Kurzform mit Stammvokal o; im Text nur angeschnitten.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Götting 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Götting | 52 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Goetting | 1 |
| US United States | 435as Goetting | 1 in 765K | 436 | Goetting | 163 |
| IT Italy | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 539K | listed | Goetting | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 730K | — | Goetting | 48 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 326K | — | Goetting | 2 |
| SE Sweden | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 198K | — | Gotting | 9 |
| AR Argentina | 26 | 1 in 1.7M | 26 | Gotting | 17 |
| BZ Belize | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Goetting | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Carl Göttingb. 1828DEGerman merchant (1828-1899)
- August Göttingb. 1834DEGerman politician, jurist and civil servant (1834-1912)
- Gottfried Göttingb. 1840DEGerman sculptor
- Ludwig Göttingb. 1854DEGerman politician and lawyer (1854-1920)
- Gerhard Göttingb. 1879DEpolitician (1879-1951)
- Gerald Göttingb. 1923DEEast German politician (1923-2015)
- Hermann Göttingb. 1939DEGerman ticket controller and collector (1939-2004)
- Renate Göttingb. 1954DEGerman politician
- Horst-Peter Göttingb. 1954DEjudge
- Jean-Claude Gottingb. 1963FRFrench ilustrator and comic book author
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Götting?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡœtɪŋ/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Götting mean?
- Recorded meaning: Wahrscheinlich Ableitung zu einstämmiger Kurzform mit Stammvokal o; im Text nur angeschnitten.
- In which country does Götting have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Götting in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled götting.
- How common is the name Götting?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 26 people named Götting, about 1 in 1.7 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/g%C3%B6ttingThe 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, “Götting”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.