Wootton
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Wootton, a place name in England; 'farmstead by a wood'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈwutən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wootton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 144K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 150K
- SESweden1 in 638K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 144K (inferred from the name graph)
2,225 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
person from Wootton, a place name in England; 'farmstead by a wood'
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wootton 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,225 | 1 in 150K | 2.2K | Wootton | 7 |
| NO Norway | 38 | 1 in 144K | 38 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 33 | 1 in 1.5M | 33 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 16 | 1 in 638K | 16 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 13 | 1 in 646K | 13 | — | — |
2,225 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Wootton is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, tremely numerous places so called from OE wudu Wood + tun enclosure, settlement.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, Any of numerous villages in England:
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)
- John Woottonb. 1682GBEnglish painter (c.1686–1764)
- Barbara Woottonb. 1897GBBritish sociologist and criminologist (1897-1988)
- Brenda Woottonb. 1928GBCornish poet and singer
- Bob Woottonb. 1942USAmerican guitarist (1942-2017)
- David Woottonb. 1950GBEnglish lawyer and politician
- David Woottonb. 1952GBBritish historian of science
- Jeff Woottonb. 1988GBEnglish guitarist
- Scott Woottonb. 1991GBEnglish association football player (born 1991)
- Kyle Woottonb. 1996GBFootballer (born 1996)
- Nicholas WoottonUSAmerican screenwriter
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 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.2K | #13,616 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,967 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,302 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 38 | #30,515 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 33 | #60,190 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 33 | #58,864 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16 | #30,009 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 13 | #50,156 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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
- What does the name Wootton mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Wootton, a place name in England; 'farmstead by a wood' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Wootton?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwutən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wootton have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Wootton, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wootton.
- Where is Wootton most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wootton is densest in Norway — about 1 in 144 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wootton?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,225 people named Wootton in 2010, about 1 in 150 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/woottonThe 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, “Wootton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.