Wooten
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wooten is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Liberia it is the 8th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Variant of Wootton.
- USUnited States1 in 11K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 21K
- LRLiberia≈1 in 1.7K
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
- 429 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈56,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Liberia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of Wootton.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wooten 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 | — | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Wooten | 5 |
| US United States | #959 | 31,249 | 1 in 11K | 31K | Wooten | 429 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 94 | Wooten | 67 |
| LR Liberia | #8 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Wooten | 3 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Wooten | 3 |
| CU Cuba | #649 | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Wooten | 3 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Wooten | 3 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Wooten | 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dudley G. Wootenb. 1860USAmerican politician (1860-1929)
- Future Manb. 1957USnot in their usual nameAmerican inventor, musician, and composer
- Victor Wootenb. 1964USAmerican bass guitarist
- John J. Wootenb. 1965USAmerican playwright
- Shawn Wootenb. 1972USAmerican baseball player
- Rob Wootenb. 1985USAmerican baseball player
- Andrew Wootenb. 1989DEGerman-American soccer player
- Khalid Wootenb. 1990USAmerican football cornerback
- Kenny Wootenb. 1998USAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Lynn Perry WootenUSAmerican academic administrator
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 31K | #1,123 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 30K | #1,060 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 30K | #1,172 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 94 | #34,422 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Wooten mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Wootton. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Wooten have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 56 thousand people named Wooten in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wooten.
- How common is the name Wooten?
- In the United States, the national register counted 31,249 people named Wooten in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Wooten compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Wooten is the 8th most common surname of 10,200 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wootenThe 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, “Wooten” — the 8th most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.