Abbott

surname · Latin script

Meaning: person employed in the household of an abbot, or from a medieval nickname for someone of abbot-like religiosity or sanctimoniousness

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/abəwt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Abbott is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 3.6K
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 3.8K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

52,739 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
502 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 979 (inferred from the name graph)

St. Kitts & Nevis

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AbbottLatin(measured from records)
แอบบอทThai(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

person employed in the household of an abbot, or from a medieval nickname for someone of abbot-like religiosity or sanctimoniousness

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Abbott, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Abbott counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Abbott is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#51752,7391 in 6.3K53KAbbott502
GB United Kingdom#312≈19,000 est.≈1 in 3.6KlistedAbbott258
CA Canada#452≈7,200 est.≈1 in 5.2K1Abbott226
AU Australia#343≈6,700 est.≈1 in 3.8K1Abbott212
IT Italy#863≈6,400 est.≈1 in 9.8KlistedAbbott29
NZ New Zealand#259≈1,700 est.≈1 in 2.9K—Abbott84
VC St. Vincent & Grenadines—841 in 1.2K84—5
KN St. Kitts & Nevis—551 in 97955—6

52,739 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; the xinhua-italian-manual register; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Abbott is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt, Israel, United Kingdom

    Languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic

    Also written אבוט, Abbot

  • Greek surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Άμποτ

67 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Abbott is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, in the household of an abbot, or perhaps a nickname for a sanctimonious person thought to resemble an abbot, from

    as a nameA dictionary of surnames

  • In English, A surname originating as an occupation.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, Old English: father of the abbey

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In Irish, Abóid. This old English name (usually of nickname type) is in Ireland since the fourteenth century and is now quite numerous in Dublin

    as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000John Abbott, b. 1821Edwin Abbott Abbott, b. 1838Margaret Abbott, b. 1878George Abbott, b. 1887Bud Abbott, b. 1897John Abbott, b. 1905Tony Abbott, b. 1957Greg Abbott, b. 1957Dimebag Darrell, b. 1966Christopher Abbott, b. 1986

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Abbott,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 46 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Abbott
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201053K#645
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200052K#588
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202050K#661
VC St. Vincent & GrenadinesElectoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025)202584#178
KN St. Kitts & NevisSt Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026202655#127
GB United KingdomA Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988)———
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Abbott mean, and where does it come from?
person employed in the household of an abbot, or from a medieval nickname for someone of abbot-like religiosity or sanctimoniousness Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Abbott?
A machine transcription gives /abəwt/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Abbott have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 53 thousand people named Abbott, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abbott.
Where is Abbott most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Abbott is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 979 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Abbott?
In the United States, the national register counted 52,739 people named Abbott in 2010, about 1 in 6.3 thousand residents.
How common is Abbott compared with other names?
In the United States, Abbott is the 517th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Abbott” — the 517th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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