Popularity of the last name by country

United Kingdom

• Lancashire (23,123)
• Kent (18,223)
• Norfolk (16,356)
• Derbyshire (16,193)
• London (15,590)
• Essex (13,753)
• North Yorkshire (11,425)
• Herefordshire and Worcester (8,827)
• Surrey (8,129)
• Suffolk (7,809)
• Warwickshire (7,632)
• Lothian (6,468)
• Devon (6,369)
• Wiltshire (6,060)
• Buckinghamshire (5,900)
• Gloucestershire (4,484)
• County Durham (3,751)
• Northumberland (3,283)
• Cornwall (3,170)
• Lincolnshire (2,947)
• Cheshire (2,803)
• Staffordshire (2,746)
• West Sussex (2,742)
• Hampshire (2,737)
• Leicestershire (2,719)
• Shropshire (2,628)
• Hertfordshire (2,485)
• Cumbria (2,351)
• Somerset (2,216)
• East Sussex (2,182)
• Strathclyde (1,959)
• Dorset (1,787)
• Cambridgeshire (1,735)
• Northamptonshire (1,617)
• Nottinghamshire (1,594)
• Oxfordshire (1,303)
• Bedfordshire (1,023)
• Tayside (978)
• Fifeshire (934)
• Berkshire (765)
• Avon (590)
• West Yorkshire (500)
• Antrim (465)
• Central (420)
• Dumfries and Galloway (368)
• Merseyside (300)
• Cleveland (233)
• Gwent (224)
• South Yorkshire (222)
• Tyne and Wear (220)
• Tyrone (207)
• West Midlands (189)
• Down (147)
• Dyfed (144)
• Armagh (119)
• South Glamorgan (95)
• Grampian (57)
• West Glamorgan (57)
• Isle of Wight (55)
• Gwynedd (52)

All countries

• United Kingdom (251,521)
• United States (167,504)
• Netherlands (22,522)
• Belgium (20,053)
• Australia (9,502)
• France (8,855)
• Ireland (6,066)
• New Zealand (4,832)
• Canada (4,450)
• Unknown country (4,024)
• Germany (2,994)
• Denmark (1,078)
• Austria (617)
• Italy (585)
• Switzerland (583)
• Estonia (224)
• Réunion (216)
• Indonesia (199)
• Mexico (167)
• India (163)
• Spain (153)
• Colombia (152)
• Hungary (137)
• Sweden (133)
• Slovakia (Slovak Republic) (105)
• Russian Federation (104)
• China (103)
• Portugal (92)
• Brazil (89)
• Poland (82)
• Collectivity of Saint Martin (75)
• South Africa (73)
• Norway (69)
• Egypt (65)
• Lebanon (64)
• Latvia (63)
• Israel (60)
• Sint Maarten (57)
• Greece (54)
• Turkey (48)

Origine of last name

POTTER : 1: English and Dutch; North German (Pötter): occupational name for a maker of drinking and storage vessels from an agent derivative of Middle English Middle Low German pot. In the Middle Ages the term covered workers in metal as well as earthenware and clay.2: In some cases also an Americanized form (translation into English) of Croatian Serbian and Slovenian Lončar ‘potter’ (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Loncar">Loncar</a>) and probably also of cognates from some other languages e.g. Czech Hrnčíř (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Hrncir">Hrncir</a>).