'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POTTER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

The most likely matches are shown first.

PITTER
PETTER
PATER
POTT
POYNER
FOOTER
POYNTER
FOSTER
FUTTER
POYSER
POWER
PONTER
POULTER
POTTS
PORTER
POOLER
PONDER
POTIER
POINTER
PLATER
POTTER
MORTER
HOLTER
HATTER
PRATER
MUTTER
PUNTER
SETTER
COOTER
NUTTER
BUTTER
PEDDER
TROTTER
BOLTER
PATTEN
COSTER
COTHER
CUTTER
RETTER
COTTIER
ROTHER
COTTER
PESTER
RUTTER
OTTE
PORTE
PETRY
PANTER
PETREY
OTTEY

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

The following words are slight variants of POTTER that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.

POTETR PTOTER OPTTER POTTE POTTEA POTTERA POTTERE POTTERI POTTERO