Choate

surname · English · Latin script

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

Choate is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In St. Helena it is the 3rd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: English surname of unknown origin and meaning.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 29K◐
  • CACanada1 in 52K
  • AUAustralia1 in 67K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈11K ●

across 1 country

Sources
321 ●

97K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 29K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Choaté in NL Netherlands.

Meaning & origin●

English surname of unknown origin and meaning.

Sources 1

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

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Choate is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—11,37284K rec.1 in 29K11KChoate321
GB United Kingdom—3,0413K rec.——Choate43
CA Canada—1,4481.5K rec.——Choate32
AU Australia—1,2561.2K rec.——Choate35
IT Italy—439443 rec.——Choate5
DE Germany—404415 rec.——Choate13
TR Türkiye—383383 rec.——Choate3
ES Spain—292304 rec.——Choate5
SH St. Helena#3254902 rec.——Choate1
CN China—215212 rec.——Choate4
IL Israel—206211 rec.——Choate3
JP Japan—120121 rec.——Choate5

Roughly 11K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 29K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • English95K84%
  • Spanish6.1K5%
  • 3K3%
  • French1.2K1%
  • German9371%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English95,08584%
Spanish6,0745%
3,0203%
French1,1551%
German9371%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Choate is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname7.5K records spelled Choate4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Choaté

44 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●

Choate is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Complete, fully formed.

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

  • In English, US prep school

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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●

175018001850190019502000Rufus Choate, b. 1799William Gardner Choate, b. 1830Joseph Hodges Choate, b. 1832John Nicholas Choate, b. 1848Emett Clay Choate, b. 1891Nathaniel Choate, b. 1899Clyde L. Choate, b. 1920Pat Choate, b. 1941Tim Choate, b. 1954Randy Choate, b. 1975

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 7 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Choate
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201011K#3,179
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200011K#3,002
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202011K#3,320
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement)———

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 2026-09-12 data build · 4 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Choate?
We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Choate (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
In which country does Choate have the most bearers?
We estimate about 11 thousand people bear Choate in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled choate.
How common is Choate compared with other names?
In St. Helena, Choate is the 3rd most common surname of 2,166 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Choate mean?
Recorded meaning: English surname of unknown origin and meaning.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Choate” — the 3rd most common surname in St. Helena. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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