Rottenberg Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

If your family name is Rottenberg, its origin lies with Rothenberg, a long-established German surname. Name scholars give the meaning as “Someone who came from Rothenberg (red fortress)”.

• Related forms: Rottenberk and Rothenberger.
• The two spellings differ in a small detail: Rottenberg has “t” where Rothenberg has “h”.
• The 2010 US Census counted 692 people named Rottenberg, ranking it number 33,087 among American surnames. That puts it among the top 50,000 US surnames.
• Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.

Rottenberg coat of arms

Arms linked to Rothenberg and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Research your Rottenberg family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.