# Wootton (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/wootton/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,225 |
| US rank (2010) | 13,616 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 138,762 people |
| Change since 2000 | +16% (1,921 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Whotton, Wootan, Wooten, Wooton |

## Etymology

From Old English wudu (“wood”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Wootton in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 92% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 2.1% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.7% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 1.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Wootton in the United States.

## People named Wootton

- Bob Wootton, American guitarist (1942-2017)

## Similar surnames

Wooten, Wooden, Whitton, Wooton, Woodin, Wootten, Whitney, Whitten, Wheaton, Witham, Weeden, Wathen.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.