Böttcher

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Occupational surname: cooper, maker of barrels/tubs

/bœtçɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Böttcher is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BRBrazil1 in 327K
  • USUnited States1 in 50Kas Boettcher

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 Böttcher 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)

≈21,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
336 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BoettcherLatin(measured from records)
เบททเชอรThai(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Boettcher in US United States, CD Congo - Kinshasa, ID Indonesia and 2 more, Bottcher in BR Brazil and Bøttcher in DK Denmark.

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)

Occupational surname: cooper, maker of barrels/tubs.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Böttcher 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.

Where Böttcher is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#130≈21,000 est.≈1 in 3.8K—Böttcher152
US United States—6,659as Boettcher1 in 50K6.7KBoettcher336
KP North Korea#493≈4,500 est.≈1 in 5.7K—Boettcher2
CD Congo - Kinshasa—≈4,300 est.≈1 in 24K—Boettcher1
ID Indonesia—≈1,500 est.≈1 in 179K—Boettcher6
JO Jordan—≈710 est.≈1 in 15K—Boettcher3
BR Brazil—6481 in 327K648Bottcher48
DK Denmark—307as Bøttcher1 in 19K307Bøttcher26

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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Böttcher is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bottcher

  • Danish surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Bottcher, Bôttcher

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Bottcher

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Bottcher

30 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Böttcher is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, from the occupation of cooper/butt-maker

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In German, cooper

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, Berufsname ‘Böttcher, Küfer’; nicht aus Bottich abgeleitet, sondern aus nd. Nomen agentis zu bode. Dentalvarianz d/t; 16813 Tokens.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

  • In German, Berufsname 'Böttcher/ Küfer'; zeigt die Dentale-Plosiv-Variation. Belegt 16813 Träger.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

  • In German, Berufsname: 'Böttcher' = Küfer/Fassbinder, also Fassmacher. Bearer count 329.

    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)

1850190019502000Lucjan Böttcher, b. 1872Karl Böttcher, b. 1889Paul Böttcher, b. 1891Walther Böttcher, b. 1901Herbert Böttcher, b. 1907Martin Böttcher, b. 1927Jürgen Böttcher, b. 1931Gerd B. Achenbach, b. 1947Markus Böttcher, b. 1964Anna Böttcher, b. 1967

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)

FormalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Dear Böttcher, (English)
InformalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Böttcher
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—72#7,546

Reference works 4

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 Böttcher mean, and where does it come from?
Occupational surname: cooper, maker of barrels/tubs. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
How do you pronounce Böttcher?
A machine transcription gives /bœtçɐ/ (IPA) for German.
In which country does Böttcher have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Böttcher in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled böttcher.
How common is the name Böttcher?
In Brazil, the national register counted 648 people named Böttcher, about 1 in 327 thousand residents.
How common is Böttcher compared with other names?
In Germany, Böttcher is the 130th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Böttcher” — the 130th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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