Ute
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in German: short form of old Germanic names, often from uodal 'inheritance'
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 27 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/uːtə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ute is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 575(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 4.5K
- USUnited States1 in 195K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 215 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 575 (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
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)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)short form of old Germanic names, often from uodal 'inheritance'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ute is read
(measured from records)Ute is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- German90%
short form of old Germanic names, often from uodal 'inheritance'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
) Uta; Utta: alter deutscher weibl.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- English6.2%
A small vehicle based on the same platform as a family car but with a unibody construction and a built-in open tray area for carrying goods; similar but not identical to a pick-up truck.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ute 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 | #122 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 575 | 1 | Ute | 215 |
| AT Austria | #591 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | 142 | Ute | 74 |
| US United States | — | 1,707 | 1 in 195K | 1.7K | Ute | 184 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Ute | 52 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Ute | 23 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Ute | 20 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 214 | — | 18 |
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: the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)Ute is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From earlier Uda, Germanic name meaning ‘heritage’; name of the mother of Kriemhild in the Nibelungenlied.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
de la Virgen en Zuia (Álava)
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
German: from a medieval given name derived from the Germanic element uod(al) prosperity, riches, fortune. It is therefore a feminine equivalent of UDO . Variants: Ude, Ode (both rare) .
as a word
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)- Ute Starkeb. 1939DEEast German gymnast
- Ute Bockb. 1942ATAustrian educator and humanitarian (1942–2018)
- Ute Frevertb. 1954DEhistorian
- Ute Christensenb. 1955DEGerman actress
- Ute Steindorfb. 1957DEEast German rower
- Ute Lemperb. 1963DEGerman singer and actress (born 1963)
- Claudia Brückenb. 1963DEnot in their usual nameGerman musician
- Ute Gewenigerb. 1964DEEast German swimmer
- Ute Wildb. 1965DEEast German rower
- Ute Stangeb. 1966DEEast German rower
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)50 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.7K | #8,489 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 214 | #4,563 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2017 | 142 | #1,907 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16 | #8,489 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1967 | 6 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2017 | 1 | #3,883 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2025 | 1 | #2 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2020 | 1 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Is Ute a male or female name?
- Ute is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Norway (SSB), Spain (INE) and Austria (Statistik Austria, 2017), among others.
- What does the name Ute mean, and where does it come from?
- short form of old Germanic names, often from uodal 'inheritance' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Ute?
- In the etymology graph, Otilia, Odette and Odile are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ute?
- A machine transcription gives /uːtə/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Ute have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 139 thousand people named Ute in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ute.
- How common is the name Ute?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,707 people named Ute in 2020, about 1 in 195 thousand residents.
- How common is Ute compared with other names?
- In Germany, Ute is the 122nd most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/uteThe 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, “Ute” — the 122nd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.