Oetting
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymischer Name mit -ing-Suffix zu Rufname Otto; 293+74 Bearer
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈoʊtɪŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Oetting is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. In the Seychelles it is the 5th most common surname.
- DEGermany≈1 in 116K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 404Kas Otting
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 34K
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 Oetting 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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Otting in US United States, NO Norway, SC Seychelles and 2 more.
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)
Patronymischer Name mit -ing-Suffix zu Rufname Otto; 293+74 Bearer.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oetting 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Oetting | 1 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 262K | — | Oetting | 1 |
| US United States | — | 824as Otting | 1 in 404K | 868 | Otting | 184 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Oetting | 55 |
| IN India | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 4M | — | Otting | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | 116as Otting | 1 in 47K | 116 | Otting | 4 |
| SC Seychelles | #5 | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Otting | 1 |
| BZ Belize | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Otting | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | Oetting | 4 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hermann Oettingb. 1937DEGerman politician
- Dirk Walther Oettingb. 1938DEGerman non-fiction writer
- Andreas Oettingb. 1969DEGerman university teacher
- Thomas A. OettingUSresearcher
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)
Attested in 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 868 | #29,082 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 815 | #29,093 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 611 | #34,949 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Oetting?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈoʊtɪŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Oetting mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronymischer Name mit -ing-Suffix zu Rufname Otto; 293+74 Bearer.
- In which country does Oetting have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Oetting in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oetting.
- How common is the name Oetting?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 4 people named Oetting in 2024, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
- How common is Oetting compared with other names?
- In the Seychelles, Oetting is the 5th most common surname of 2,002 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oettingThe 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, “Oetting” — the 5th most common surname in Seychelles. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.