Fleet
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/flit/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fleet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English flete, flet (“fleet”), from Old English flēot (“ship”), likely related to Proto-West Germanic *flotōn, from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”).
- USUnited States1 in 119K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 304K
- DKDenmark1 in 978K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Fleet itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 119K (inferred from the name graph)
2,787 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Фліт in UA Ukraine.
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)
- Middle Englishflete“fleet”(measured from records)
- Old Englishflēot“ship”(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*flutōną“to float”(measured from records)
From Middle English flete, flet (“fleet”), from Old English flēot (“ship”), likely related to Proto-West Germanic *flotōn, from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”).
Sources 3
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fleet 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,787 | 1 in 119K | 2.8K | Fleet | 22 |
| ES Spain | 19 | 1 in 2.6M | 19 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 18 | 1 in 304K | 18 | — | 1 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Фліт | 6 |
| DK Denmark | 6 | 1 in 978K | 6 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | — |
2,787 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- John Faithfull Fleetb. 1847GBBritish historian, epigraphist and linguist (1847–1917)
- Frank Fleetb. 1848USAmerican baseball player
- Frederick Fleetb. 1887GBBritish sailor, survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic (1887-1965)
- Reuben H. Fleetb. 1887USAmerican pilot and businessman (1887–1975)
- Jo Van Fleetb. 1915USAmerican actress (1915-1996)
- Pat Fleetb. 1943USAmerican voice actress known as "the voice of AT&T"
- James Fleetb. 1952GBBritish actor
- David Fleetb. 1954CACanadian politician
- Anthony Fleetb. 1965AUAustralian darts player
- Kate FleetOttoman historian
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.8K | #11,322 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.4K | #11,837 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.3K | #12,627 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 19 | #86,409 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18 | #43,774 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 6 | #54,253 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Fleet mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English flete, flet (“fleet”), from Old English flēot (“ship”), likely related to Proto-West Germanic *flotōn, from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- What are other forms of the name Fleet?
- In the etymology graph, Vliet is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Fleet?
- A machine transcription gives /flit/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Fleet have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Fleet, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fleet.
- Where is Fleet most common?
- Fleet is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 119 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Fleet?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,787 people named Fleet in 2010, about 1 in 119 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fleetThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Fleet”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.