Bothe

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: Obsolete spelling of both

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 418K
  • CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 46K

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)

≈6,000 people, est.

Sources
173 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Obsolete spelling of both.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

How Bothe is read(measured from records)

Bothe is one spelling over 3 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.

  • German40%

    Patronym aus Kurzformen zu Rufnamen mit ahd./as. boto/bodo 'Bote'; konkurrierend Berufsname zu mhd. bote 'Bote'. 2587 Belege.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

    Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Bodo; Belege: 2587.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

    patronymisch zu Rufname Boto/Botho; vgl. Bote, Botte, Bötte, Bothmann.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • English37%

    Obsolete spelling of both.

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

    Walther, German physicist (Nobel

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Hindi14%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Bothe in Hindi.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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

Bothe 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 Bothe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany≈6,000 est.≈1 in 13K—Bothe129
CD Congo - Kinshasa≈2,200 est.≈1 in 46K—Bothe1
US United States7961 in 418K840Bothe173
AU Australia≈150 est.≈1 in 176K—Bothe59
GB United Kingdom≈140 est.≈1 in 472K—Bothe19
DK Denmark481 in 122K48——
CH Switzerland451 in 187K45Bothe13

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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Bőthe

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Bothé

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Böthe, Bőthe, Bothé

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Cameroon, Congo - Kinshasa

    Also written Bothé, Bőthe, Bothè

32 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)

Bothe 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 enm, A store, kiosk or booth, especially a temporary one.

    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)

1850190019502000Walther Bothe, b. 1891Cord Bothe, b. 1920Herta Bothe, b. 1921Michael Bothe, b. 1938Heinz-Jürgen Bothe, b. 1941Hans-Werner Bothe, b. 1952Detlef Bothe, b. 1965Stephan Bothe, b. 1984Roger Bothe, b. 1988Maya Bothe, b. 2000

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)

FormalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Dear Bothe, (English)
InformalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Bothe
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000840#27,105
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010796#29,604
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020790#31,403
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—48#10,965
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202445#20,234
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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 Bothe mean, and where does it come from?
Obsolete spelling of both. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Bothe?
In the etymology graph, Both is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Bothe?
A machine transcription gives /bɔtʰə/ (IPA) for German.
In which country does Bothe have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 6.0 thousand people named Bothe in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bothe.
How common is the name Bothe?
In the United States, the national register counted 796 people named Bothe in 2010, about 1 in 418 thousand residents.

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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, “Bothe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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