Ottinger
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɑtɪŋɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ottinger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 88K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 107K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 79K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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 79K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Oettinger in DE Germany.
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)
Ottinger 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 | 3,112 | 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 | 107 | 1 in 79K | 107 | Ottinger | 23 |
| AT Austria | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Ottinger | 22 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Ottinger | 1 |
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). 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)
- Ferenc Ottingerb. 1792HUHungarian general (1793-1869)
- George M. Ottingerb. 1833USAmerican artist, actor, photographer and educator
- Albert Ottingerb. 1878USAmerican politician (1878-1938)
- Lilli Öttingerb. 1890DEHolocaust victim (born 1890)
- Richard Ottingerb. 1929USAmerican politician (1929–2026)
- Ralph A. Ottingerb. 1931journalist, theatre critic, theatre-maker
- Ulrike Ottingerb. 1942DEGerman filmmaker and photographer (born 1942)
- Didier Ottingerb. 1957FRFrench museum curator, art critic and author
- Roland OttingerDEGerman artist
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 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.1K | #10,352 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.1K | #9,729 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,954 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 107 | #10,464 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Ottinger?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑtɪŋɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ottinger have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.5 thousand people named Ottinger in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ottinger.
- Where is Ottinger most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ottinger is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 79 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ottinger?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,112 people named Ottinger in 2010, about 1 in 107 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ottinger?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ottingerThe 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, “Ottinger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.