City
loc · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
City is a name, most frequently recorded in the United States. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.
- USUnited States1 in 111◐
- NZNew Zealand1 in 522
- CACanada1 in 1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- 103M ●
- Sources
- 107 ●
in 5 countries
13K records
Official registry-verified
Meaning & origin●
A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 46,930,110 | 10K rec. | — | 152 | City | 107 |
| CA Canada | 216,512 | 81 rec. | — | — | City | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | 87,727 | 529 rec. | — | listed | City | 31 |
| NZ New Zealand | 15,798 | 77 rec. | — | — | City | 7 |
| AU Australia | 13,145 | 199 rec. | — | — | City | 20 |
| RU Russia | 3,154 | 21 rec. | — | — | City | 7 |
| DE Germany | 2,534 | 241 rec. | — | — | City | 23 |
| ZA South Africa | 680 | 297 rec. | — | — | City | 7 |
| PH Philippines | 581 | 15 rec. | — | — | City | 9 |
| MX Mexico | 382 | 0 rec. | — | — | City | 1 |
| BZ Belize | 375 | 1 rec. | — | — | City | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 371 | 0 rec. | — | 23 | City | 1 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English47M43%
- Spanish1.3M1%
- Hindi1.2M1%
- Arabic183K1%
- Hebrew90K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 47,268,135 | 43% |
| Spanish | 1,318,078 | 1% |
| Hindi | 1,160,527 | 1% |
| Arabic | 183,067 | 1% |
| Hebrew | 90,218 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
City 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 German, city center
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In Finnish, synonym of liikekeskusta (“central business district”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, inner city, the commercial centre of a medium-sized or larger city
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of cit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, city center, downtown, central business district
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●
- Mike Cityb. 2000USAmerican musician
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 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 152 | #120,164 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 119 | #140,157 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 119 | #131,366 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 23 | #177,962 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 21 | #1,666 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 17 | #69,645 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 · 8 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name City?
- Our records include 103,270,484 bearers of City across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does City have the most bearers?
- City is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled city.
- What does the name City mean?
- Recorded meaning: A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “City”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.