Rotta

surname · Latin script

Meaning: oriundo de localidades chamadas Rotta; do latim rupta, quebrada/destruída

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 46K(measured from records)
  • COColombia≈1 in 58K
  • BRBrazil1 in 59K

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)

≈4,100 people, est.

Sources
90 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Portuguese

oriundo de localidades chamadas Rotta; do latim rupta, quebrada/destruída

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rotta 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 Rotta is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈4,100 est.≈1 in 342K—Rotta1
BR Brazil3,6081 in 59K3.6KRotta90
AR Argentina9831 in 46K983Rotta47
CO Colombia≈850 est.≈1 in 58K—Rotta55
IT Italy≈710 est.≈1 in 88KlistedRotta9
UY Uruguay1751 in 19K175Rotta10

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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)

Rotta is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Switzerland, Peru

    Also written Rötta

40 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)

Rotta is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Norwegian Bokmål, definite feminine singular of rotte

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

  • In Italian, course, route, lane

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

  • In Maltese, course, route

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

  • In Faroese, rat (Rattus)

    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)

1400160018002000Antonio Rotta, b. 1495Antonio Rotta, b. 1828Paolo Rotta, b. 1832Angelo Rotta, b. 1872Paolo Rotta, b. 1873Linde Rotta, b. 1937Rudy Rotta, b. 1950Marcos Rotta, b. 1967Pirry, b. 1972Alessia Rotta, b. 1975

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)

FormalEstimado/a Rotta,Dear Rotta, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Rotta,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 27 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Rotta
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—3.6K#2,938
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—983—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—175—
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———

Reference works 4

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 Rotta?
A machine transcription gives /rotta/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Rotta mean?
Recorded meaning: oriundo de localidades chamadas Rotta; do latim rupta, quebrada/destruída
In which country does Rotta have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Rotta in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rotta.
Where is Rotta most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rotta is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 19 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Rotta?
In Brazil, the national register counted 3,608 people named Rotta, about 1 in 59 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, “Rotta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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