Given name · also Old High German
Wotan
Wotan is a masculine given name from Old High German, ultimately from Proto-Germanic. It is used in German.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Wotan comes from Old High German, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old High German Wodan, from Proto-West Germanic *Wōdan, from Proto-Germanic *Wōdanaz.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wotan’s family of names
In German usage, Wotan shares an earlier linguistic root with Odin. Wotan has a related form in Woden. In German usage, Wotan shares a linguistic root with the Icelandic form Óðinn.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Wotan
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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