Rotta
surname · Latin script
Meaning: oriundo de localidades chamadas Rotta; do latim rupta, quebrada/destruída (Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries
/rotta/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Rotta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 3,608 people, counted by IBGE.
- UYUruguay1 in 19K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 46K
- ARArgentina1 in 46K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
3,608 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Rotta
- Spanish:/rotta/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/ɾɔttɐ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)oriundo de localidades chamadas Rotta; do latim rupta, quebrada/destruída
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Rotta is found
(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.
3,608 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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 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)- Antonio Rottab. 1828ITItalian painter (1828-1903)
- Angelo Rottab. 1872ITapostolic nuncio (1872–1965)
- Alessia Rottab. 1975ITItalian journalist and politician
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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Rotta?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /rotta/; in Portuguese /ɾɔttɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Rotta mean?
- Recorded meaning: oriundo de localidades chamadas Rotta; do latim rupta, quebrada/destruída
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Rotta?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Rotta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rotta. After it come Italy, Colombia, Argentina and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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 Brazil 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.
What do you want to know about Rotta?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rottaThe 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, “Rotta” — ranked 2938th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.