Botta
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Old English personal name; surviving in Bott
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/botta/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Botta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 2.8K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 6.8Kfew records
- ARArgentina1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Old English personal name; surviving in Bott
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Botta is read
(measured from records)Botta is one spelling over 6 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- Spanish36%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Botta in Spanish.
- Hindi20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Botta in Hindi.
- English19%
Old English personal name; surviving in Bott
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- Italian5.8%
blow, hit (violent attack)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese5.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Botta in Portuguese.
- French5.5%
third-person singular past historic of botter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Botta 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | — | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | listed | Botta | 51 |
| IN India | — | 4,764 | 1 in 278K | 4.8K | Botta | 8 |
| AR Argentina | — | 3,236 | 1 in 14K | 3.2K | Botta | 74 |
| US United States | — | 1,558 | 1 in 214K | 1.6K | Botta | 70 |
| UY Uruguay | #447 | 1,220 | 1 in 2.8K | 1.2K | Botta | 31 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 410 | 1 in 20K | 410 | Botta | 15 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Botta | 23 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the xinhua-italian-manual register; 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)Botta is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from Czech bota 'boot'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Maltese, offensive remark
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pdt, butter
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)- Jakob Marchese Bottab. 1729IT(1729-1803)
- Carlo Bottab. 1766FRItalian historian (1766-1837)
- Paul-Émile Bottab. 1802FRFrench archaeologist (1802–1870)
- Antonio Bottab. 1896ARArgentinian screenwriter (1896–1969)
- Dan Bottab. 1907RORomanian poet and essayist
- Emil Bottab. 1911RORomanian actor and poet (1911–1977)
- Giuseppe Bottab. 1925ITItalian politician
- Leonardo Bottab. 1931ITItalian actor
- Mario Bottab. 1943CHSwiss architect (1943)
- Stefano Bottab. 1986ITItalian footballer
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)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 9.4K | #222 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 4.8K | #1,621 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 3.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,942 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,982 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,795 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 410 | #3,205 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Botta mean, and where does it come from?
- Old English personal name; surviving in Bott Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Botta?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /botta/; in Italian /ˈbɔt.ta/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /buttɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Botta have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.7 thousand people named Botta in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled botta.
- Where is Botta most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Botta is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 2.8 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Botta?
- In India, the national register counted 4,764 people named Botta, about 1 in 278 thousand residents.
- How common is Botta compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Botta is the 447th most common surname of 57,630 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/bottaThe 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, “Botta” — the 447th most common surname in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.