Oettinger
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈoʊtɪndʒɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Oettinger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 88Kas Ottinger(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 107Kas Ottinger
- DKDenmark1 in 235K
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 Oettinger 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 280 (measured from records)
- 1 in 235K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,500 named Ottinger, est.
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ottinger in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CH Switzerland and 4 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oettinger 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Ottinger | 7 |
| US United States | 3,112as Ottinger | 1 in 107K | 3.1K | Ottinger | 280 |
| DE Germany | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Oettinger | 84 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Ottinger | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 193K | 18 | Ottinger | 22 |
| CH Switzerland | 107as Ottinger | 1 in 79K | 107 | Ottinger | 23 |
| AT Austria | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Ottinger | 22 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Ottinger | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 25 | 1 in 235K | 25 | — | — |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ludwig Oettingerb. 1797DEGerman mathematician and historian of mathematics
- Eduard Maria Oettingerb. 1808PLGerman journalist (1808-1872)
- Louella Parsonsb. 1881USnot in their usual nameAmerican gossip columnist (1881-1972)
- Luise Hedwig Herzbergb. 1906DEnot in their usual nameastrophysicist (1906–1971)
- Shmuel Ettingerb. 1919ILnot in their usual nameUkrainian historian and philosopher (1919–1988)
- Anthony Oettingerb. 1929UScomputer scientist
- Günther Oettingerb. 1953DEGerman politician (CDU)
- Johan Oettingerb. 1984Danish director
- Urte Oettingerb. 1985LTLithuanian film producer
- Jake Oettingerb. 1998USAmerican ice hockey player (born 1998)
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 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 600 | #39,536 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 514 | #42,237 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 429 | #46,678 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 25 | #19,670 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 20 | #36,564 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 18 | #97,089 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Oettinger?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈoʊtɪndʒɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Oettinger have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.5 thousand people named Ottinger in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Oettinger most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Oettinger is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 235 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Oettinger?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 25 people named Oettinger, about 1 in 235 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Oettinger?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oettingerThe 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, “Oettinger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.