Persons
surname · Latin script
Meaning: plural of person, used to refer to them individually, rather than as a group; contrast people
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pʰɝsənz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Persons is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- CACanada
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
plural of person, used to refer to them individually, rather than as a group; contrast people
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Persons is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, indefinite genitive singular of person
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Andrea Philopatrusb. 1546GBnot in their usual nameJesuit missionary and controversialist (1546-1610)
- Henry Personsb. 1834USConfederate Army officer, lawyer and politician (1834-1910)
- Wilton Personsb. 1896USUnited States Army general and White House Chief of Staff (1896-1977)
- Gordon Personsb. 1902USAmerican politician (1902-1965)
- Simmons Personsb. 1906USAmerican artist (1906-1995)
- Fern Personsb. 1910USAmerican actor, SAG/AFTRA activist (1910-2012)
- Truman Capoteb. 1924USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer (1924-1984)
- Alisa Personsb. 1964USAmerican filmmaker and writer
- Jenna Personsb. 1983USAmerican politician
- Tayler Personsb. 1995USAmerican basketball player (born 1995)
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 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4K | #7,941 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.6K | #9,064 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.6K | #8,509 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 53 | #29,714 |
| 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 Persons mean, and where does it come from?
- plural of person, used to refer to them individually, rather than as a group; contrast people Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Persons?
- A machine transcription gives /pʰɝsənz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Persons have the most bearers?
- Persons is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/personsThe 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, “Persons”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.