Hutter

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: someone who lives in a hut

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈhətɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Hutter is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 3.5K(measured from records)
  • ATAustria≈1 in 3.8K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 22K

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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,600 people, est.

Sources
286 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)

someone who lives in a hut

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

How Hutter is read(measured from records)

Hutter is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.

  • English62%

    someone who lives in a hut

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • German20%

    Berufsname zu mhd. hüetære 'Wächter, Aufseher' oder zu Hutter; Varianten mit -er und teils -s. Bearer count: 1824.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Hutter 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.

Where Hutter is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany—≈3,600 est.≈1 in 22KlistedHutter117
US United States—2,8551 in 117K2.9KHutter286
CH Switzerland#2442,4331 in 3.5K2.4KHutter59
AT Austria#101≈2,300 est.≈1 in 3.8K—Hutter89
GB United Kingdom—≈480 est.≈1 in 137K—Hutter84
CA Canada—≈400 est.≈1 in 93K—Hutter56
SI Slovenia—271 in 78K27—2

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 2000; the dfa-band-3 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hutter is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Switzerland, Canada

    Also written Hütter

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Hûtter, Hütter

  • Czech surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Poland, United States, Switzerland

    Languages: Czech, Polish

    Also written Hütter

  • Russian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Finland, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Хуттер, Гуттер, Khutter, Hütter

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Hutter is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, to hut, to put in a hut

    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)

1400160018002000Jakob Hutter, b. 1500Leonhard Hutter, b. 1563Anne Perrier, b. 1922Wolfgang Hutter, b. 1928Birgit Hutter, b. 1941Ernst Hutter, b. 1958Marcus Hutter, b. 1967Xaver Hutter, b. 1976Michael Hutter, b. 1983Jan Hutter, b. 1984

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)

FormalDear Hutter,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 31 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Hutter
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.9K#10,203
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.9K#11,111
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.6K#11,686
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20242.4K#366
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—27#11,410
DE GermanyDeutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 3———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

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 Hutter mean, and where does it come from?
someone who lives in a hut Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Hutter?
A machine transcription gives /ˈhətɝ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Hutter have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Hutter in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hutter.
Where is Hutter most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hutter is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 3.5 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Hutter?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,855 people named Hutter in 2010, about 1 in 117 thousand residents.
How common is Hutter compared with other names?
In Austria, Hutter is the 101st most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Hutter” — the 101st most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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