Hotter is used as a family name or surname in England, Netherlands. It is 6 characters long in length.
Hotter is the variation of Other. See Otter - A Scandinavian personal name of great antiquity, and common application. It is variously spelt Otter, Ohter, Other, Othyr, Ottyr, Oter, and in Domesday book, Otre. In some one or other of these forms it occurs also in the Saxon Chronicle, the Annales Cambriæ, and the Dublin Annals. A lately-decyphered inscription on a cross in the Isle of Man reads— "Otr raised this cross to Fruki, his father." As a family name, it has existed from time immemorial in the "Danish" or Northman counties of East Yorkshire, Nottingham, Lincoln and Derby, where there is almost a clan of Otters, though the name is rarely to be met with in other counties, and scarcely appears at all in the metropolis. Walter Fitz- Other, the celebrated castellan of Windsor, temp. William I, the reputed ancestor of the Fitzgeralds, Gerards, Windsors, and other great houses, was the son of Otherus, a great landowner under the Confessor, but whether the latter was of Norse descent does not appear; there is, however, something like armorial evidence of the connection of the Otters with the families alluded to. Ingram, in his translation of the Saxon Chronicle, says that Otter was "originally 'oht-here' or 'ochthere,' i.e. Terror of an Army."
The family name Hotter is a variation of the Otter. Dweller at the sign of the otter; descendant of Otthar meaning "terrible, army"; dweller at the Otter meaning "otter stream," a river in England.
A variation of the Otter. A Scandinavian personal name of great antiquity, and common application. It is variously spelt Otter, Ohter, Other, Othyr, Ottyr, Oter, and in Domesday book, Otre. In some one or other of these forms it occurs also in the Saxon Chronicle, the Annales Cambriæ, and the Dublin Annals. A lately-decyphered inscription on a cross in the Isle of Man reads— "Otr raised this cross to Fruki, his father." As a family name, it has existed from time immemorial in the "Danish" or Northman counties of East Yorkshire, Nottingham, Lincoln and Derby, where there is almost a clan of Otters, though the name is rarely to be met with in other counties, and scarcely appears at all in the metropolis. Walter Fitz- Other, the celebrated castellan of Windsor, temp. William I, the reputed ancestor of the Fitzgeralds, Gerards, Windsors, and other great houses, was the son of Otherus, a great landowner under the Confessor, but whether the latter was of Norse descent does not appear; there is, however, something like armorial evidence of the connection of the Otters with the families alluded to. Ingram, in his translation of the Saxon Chronicle, says that Otter was "originally 'oht-here' or 'ochthere,' i.e. Terror of an Army."
How popular is Hotter?
Hotter is common in Austria, Germany, United States, India, New Zealand.
Hotter is ranked 194435 on our list.
Despite the fact that the number of Hotter bearers increased by 6.32 per cent in 2010 US census to 202 since 2000, the surname slipped by 969 spots and ranked at 91221. The last name was found in merely 7 per ten million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.
Race | 2010 | 2000 |
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White | 93.56 | 96.32 |
Hispanic or Latino | 2.97 | 0 |
Immigrants to US
From Germany
Aloise Hotter was 8 years old when he migrated to New York on October 21, 1850. He lived in Bavaria and took Robert Kelly from Havre. Barbara Hotter (52) Farmer, Johann Hotter, aged 14, Johann Hotter, aged 52, Joseph Hotter, aged 16, 23 years old John-George Hotter, Jacob Hotter, aged 20, Carl Hotter, aged 15, Farmer Bernhard Hotter, and 17 other Hotter around 58.82% of whom were farmer while others worked as baker migrated to US from Havre, Bremen and Antwerp.
Hotter Namesakes
- Hans Hotter, German operatic bass-baritone
Hotter Namesakes
- Hans Hotter, German operatic bass-baritone
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