Rotting
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: present participle and gerund of rot
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: CBG Familienamenbank, 2007
/ˈɹɑtɪŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rotting is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.6Mas Roetting(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 402K
- DEGermany≈1 in 501K
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 Rotting 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- 1 in 402K (inferred from the name graph)
≈160 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Rötting in DE Germany, AT Austria, Røtting in NO Norway, DK Denmark and Roetting in US United States.
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)The process of rotting.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Rotting is read
(measured from records)Rotting is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English58%
present participle and gerund of rot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Dutch8.8%
The process of rotting.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German8.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Rotting in German.
- Swedish5.9%
any of several species of climbing palm of the genus Calamus; rattan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rotting 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 501K | — | Rötting | 29 |
| US United States | 128as Roetting | 1 in 2.6M | 136 | Roetting | 70 |
| NO Norway | 76as Røtting | 1 in 72K | 76 | Røtting | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 43 | 1 in 402K | 43 | Rotting | 9 |
| DK Denmark | 16as Røtting | 1 in 367K | 16 | Røtting | 5 |
| AT Austria | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Rötting | 3 |
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); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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)- Mats Rottingb. 1969SESwedish association football player
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 43 | #34,055 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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
- Where does the name Rotting come from?
- The process of rotting. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Rotting?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹɑtɪŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Rotting mean?
- In English, present participle and gerund of rot
- In which country does Rotting have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 160 people named Rotting in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rötting.
- Where is Rotting most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rotting is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 402 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rotting?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 43 people named Rotting in 2007, about 1 in 402 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rottingThe 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, “Rotting”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.