Kotte

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

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

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 89Kas Katta(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 50K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 111K

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 Kotte 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.

India (measured from records)

14,897 named Katta

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
98 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KotteLatin(measured from records)
కట్టTelugu(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kotti in TN Tunisia.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kotte 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 Kotte is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India14,897as Katta1 in 89K15KKotte72
US United States657as Katta1 in 506K1.2KKotte98
TN Tunisia≈500 est.≈1 in 23K—Kotti6
FI Finland279as Kotti1 in 20K279—2
NL Netherlands1561 in 111K156Kotte4
NO Norway1101 in 50K110—1

14,897 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling katta. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • German surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, India, Netherlands

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Kötte, Koette, Kotté

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Koṭṭē

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Peru, Spain

    Also written Kótté, Kottè, Kotté

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Cameroon, United States, Switzerland

    Also written Kotté

38 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)

Kotte 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 Portuguese, Kotte, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (the capital city of Sri Lanka)

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

  • In English, Abbreviation of Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte.

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

  • In Finnish, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte

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

  • In Estonian, partitive plural of kott

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

  • In Swedish, a conifer cone

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

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)

18801900192019401960Erich Kotte, b. 1886Walter Kotte, b. 1893Winand Kotte, b. 1922Werner Kotte, b. 1931Arne Kotte, b. 1935Günter Kotte, b. 1949Peter Kotte, b. 1954Andreas Kotte, b. 1955Lars Kotte, b. 1956Gabriele Löwe, b. 1958

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)

Formalआदरणीय श्री Kotte जी,Respected Kotte ji, (English)
Informalनमस्ते Kotte जी,Hi Kotte, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Kotte
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—3.3K#1,040
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.7K#3,521
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020272#76,236
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010188#96,799
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000179#94,676
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007156#13,122
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—110#14,156
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—37#14,217
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—34#31,487
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Kotte?
A machine transcription gives /koʊɛt/ (IPA) for Hindi.
In which country does Kotte have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Katta, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Kotte most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kotte is densest in Norway — about 1 in 50 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kotte?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 156 people named Kotte in 2007, about 1 in 111 thousand residents.

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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, “Kotte”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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