Register
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A formal recording of names, events, transactions, etc
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines, 2025
/ˈɹed͡ʒ.ɪ.stə/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Register is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- ITItaly
- CACanada
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)A formal recording of names, events, transactions, etc.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages 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)Register is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, a register, a list, an index, a catalog, a directory, a database
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, register (formal recording of names, events, transactions etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, a register, an index, esp. as an appendix in a book
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, database, registry, data repository
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a register (list or record)
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)- John Registerb. 1939USAmerican realist painter (1939-1996)
- Sam Registerb. 1969USAmerican television producer
- Hubert Registerb. 1973USAmerican basketball player (born 1973)
- Steven Registerb. 1983USAmerican baseball player
- Matthew Registerb. 1989CACanadian ice hockey defenceman
- Hayward Registerb. 1994USbasketball player
- Babyface Rayb. 2002USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper (born 1991)
- Dave Registeractor
- Ben Registeractor
- Miah RegisterUSbasketball player
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.1K | #3,914 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.8K | #3,718 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.3K | #4,129 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 124 | #28,950 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 1 | #261 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #24,146 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Register mean, and where does it come from?
- A formal recording of names, events, transactions, etc. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Register?
- In English /ˈɹed͡ʒ.ɪ.stə/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Register have the most bearers?
- Register is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/registerThe 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, “Register”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.