Nolting
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymic surname with -ing; variant Nölting; attested 1585–1704
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/noltin/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Nolting is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 26K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 136K
- DKDenmark1 in 159K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,200 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)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)Patronymic surname with -ing; variant Nölting; attested 1585–1704.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Nolting is found
(measured from records)Nolting 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 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | listed | Nolting | 95 |
| US United States | 1,446 | 1 in 230K | 1.4K | Nolting | 195 |
| NL Netherlands | 127 | 1 in 136K | 127 | Nolting | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 599K | 5 | Nolting | 7 |
| CA Canada | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 374K | — | Nolting | 18 |
| DK Denmark | 37 | 1 in 159K | 37 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 248K | — | Nolting | 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 2010; the dfa-band-6 register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Nolting 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.
patronymic from the personal name Nolte, a variant of Noll.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, Patronym mit -ing; zu Arnold, also 'Sohn des Arnold'. 1176 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, aus dem Rufnamen Arnold entstanden; Kurzform durch Wegfall der ersten Silbe, mit Ableitung -ing. Bearer count: 1184.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Patronymischer Familienname mit Suffix -ing; typische -ing-Familiennamenbildung (Abstammungsname).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Familienname aus dem Rufnamen Arnold; patronymisch mit -ing-Suffix. 1408 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)- Frederick Noltingb. 1911USAmerican ambassador and businessman
- Rolf Noltingb. 1926DEGerman politician (1926–1995)
- Arne Noltingb. 1972DEGerman screenwriter
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nolting mean, and where does it come from?
- Patronymic surname with -ing; variant Nölting; attested 1585–1704. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen.
- How do you pronounce Nolting?
- In Spanish /noltin/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Nolting?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Nolting in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nolting. After it come United States, Netherlands, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Nolting?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,446 people named Nolting in 2010, about 1 in 230 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nolting?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/noltingThe 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, “Nolting”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.