Bottle
org · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bottle is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Kent. relationship name from the Middle English female personal name Botild (Old Scandinavian Bóthildr, Bothild, from bót ‘remedy’ + hildr ‘battle, war’).
- USUnited States≈1 in 4M(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 306K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 388K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 306K (inferred from the name graph)
≈180 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Australia, 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 Böttle in DE Germany.
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)
Main GB Location (1881): Kent. relationship name from the Middle English female personal name Botild (Old Scandinavian Bóthildr, Bothild, from bót ‘remedy’ + hildr ‘battle, war’). Some of the post-medieval bearers may belong under (2) or (3).
Sources 2
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bottle 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 | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 448K | — | Böttle | 26 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 388K | listed | Bottle | 94 |
| AU Australia | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 306K | — | Bottle | 55 |
| US United States | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 4M | 106 | Bottle | 87 |
| CA Canada | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 665K | — | Bottle | 33 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Bottle | 5 |
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 2000; the reaney-english-surnames-1991 register. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 106 | #143,847 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
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
- What does the name Bottle mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Kent. relationship name from the Middle English female personal name Botild (Old Scandinavian Bóthildr, Bothild, from bót ‘remedy’ + hildr ‘battle, war’). Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does Bottle have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 179 people named Bottle in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled böttle.
- How common is the name Bottle?
- Mondonomo estimates about 180 people in Germany have Bottle as their first surname, about 1 in 448 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bottleThe 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, “Bottle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.