Despite the annexation of their lands following the German mediatisation of 1806, the family retained their titles and still have representatives today.

The Oettingen family was first mentioned in 1147 with Ludovicus comes de Otingen, a relative of the Imperial House of Hohenstaufen who was granted the county surrounding the Imperial city of Nördlingen as a fief, possibly with his brother Chuno comes de Othingen.

The county of Oettingen lay around the imperial city of Nördlingen in present-day Bavaria or Baden-Württemberg.

Following the partitions, the remaining land was called Oettingen-Oettingen and was located in modern-day eastern Baden-Württemberg and western Bavaria.

Oettingen-Wallerstein (German: Öttingen-Wallerstein) is a noble family related to a former County in modern-day eastern Baden-Württemberg and western Bavaria, Germany.

Oettingen-Spielberg is a noble family and former principality in modern-day eastern Baden-Württemberg and western Bavaria, Germany.

As so, the table below will present the birth numbering in comma "", followed, in brackets (), by the counting of those who actually ruled.