Wootten Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Arms linked to Wooten and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

The meaning behind Wootten

A Wootten ancestor may well appear as Wooten in earlier records. The family name meaning is “Settlement by a wood”, the same as for Wooten.

The extra “t” in Wootten is a spelling habit rather than a different name. Before spelling was standardised, one family could appear under several forms. Related forms: Wootton. 1,186 Americans were listed as Wootten in the 2010 census. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Witten.

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