About the Wootton Surname

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Wootton, so the heraldry linked to Wooten is a starting point, not an automatic right.

What Wootton means

One surname, two spellings: Wootton and Wooten. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “Settlement by a wood”.

Before spelling was fixed, Wooten was also written Wootton. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Wootten. In the 2010 US Census, 2,225 Americans gave Wootton as their last name (rank 13,616). It sits among the 25,000 most common last names in the country.

Want more than a summary? See the Wootton family name pack.