Woltering Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

Woltering is best understood together with Wolter: both are German spellings of a single family name. Read literally, Woltering points to “Ruler of the army”.

• You may also find the name written Wolters, Wolther and Woltermann.
• Before spelling was standardised, one family could appear under several forms.
• Woltering is built on the same root as Wolter, with the ending -ing.
• 271 Americans were listed as Woltering in the 2010 census. That puts it among the top 100,000 US surnames.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to Wolter and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Woltering report, with a museum-style coat of arms.