Gantt

Name: Gantt: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-09-12

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gantt is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Liberia it is the 43rd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: probably a variant of French, English, or German Gant.

rarermore common

USUnited States1 in 2.1K◐
GBUnited Kingdom1 in 65K
PLPoland1 in 456K

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

: ≈160K ●
: 2 ●
Sources: 342 ●
: 1 in 2.1K ◐

Spellings & scripts●

KhantLatin · Hindi●104K records

ХантCyrillic · Russian●243 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hunt in PL Poland, CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia and 1 more, Khant in IN India, TH Thailand, CH Switzerland, Хант in RU Russia, UA Ukraine and Gant in NL Netherlands.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

probably a variant of French, English, or German Gant.

Sources 1

Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world●

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

Where Gantt is recorded, by country
Country						Most common spelling	Sources
US United States	—	158,421	84K rec.	1 in 2.1K	158K	Gantt	342
GB United Kingdom	—	3,586	3.3K rec.	—	listed	Gantt	33
CA Canada	—	843	853 rec.	—	—	Gantt	12
AU Australia	—	808	886 rec.	—	—	Gantt	29
SK Slovakia	—	476	444 rec.	—	—	Hunt	18
ES Spain	—	435△	63 rec.	1 in 115K	435	—	4
DE Germany	—	380	394 rec.	—	—	Gantt	14
PK Pakistan	—	376	388 rec.	—	—	Gantt	3
MY Malaysia	—	365	327 rec.	—	—	Gantt	11
BG Bulgaria	—	362	348 rec.	—	—	Hunt	24
AR Argentina	—	357	0 rec.	1 in 127K	357	—	1
IT Italy	—	279	290 rec.	—	—	Gantt	3
LR Liberia	#43	256	809 rec.	—	—	Gantt	2
RU Russia	—	251	200 rec.	—	—	Хант	51
JM Jamaica	#769	233	239 rec.	—	—	Gantt	1
FI Finland	—	221△	33 rec.	1 in 25K	221	—	1
UA Ukraine	—	214	260 rec.	—	—	Хант	10
GH Ghana	—	186	191 rec.	—	—	Gantt	8
NO Norway	—	182△	3 rec.	1 in 30K	182	—	2
TH Thailand	—	173	124 rec.	—	—	Khant	34
SE Sweden	—	151△	7 rec.	1 in 68K	151	—	2
CH Switzerland	—	115△	13 rec.	1 in 73K	115	Khant	3
DK Denmark	—	96	—	1 in 61K	96	—	—
EG Egypt	—	90	93 rec.	—	—	Gantt	4
NL Netherlands	—	87△	25 rec.	1 in 199K	87	Gant	3
PL Poland	—	84	3.4K rec.	1 in 456K	84	Hunt	40
BE Belgium	—	77△	29 rec.	1 in 152K	77	—	2
IN India	—	73	93K rec.	1 in 18M	73	Khant	69
CZ Czechia	—	17	598 rec.	1 in 630K	18	Hunt	24
EE Estonia	—	—	13 rec.	—	450	—	3

Roughly 158K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 2.1K). 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●

English90K86%
4K4%
Spanish3.3K3%
Ukrainian9281%
French8081%

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Languages in which the name is recorded
Name	Records	Note
English	90,223	86%
	3,997	4%
Spanish	3,347	3%
Ukrainian	928	1%
French	808	1%

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◐

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

a separate surname4.2K records spelled Gantt2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Pakistan
Also written Gant-T

47 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.

Notable people with this name●

Edward Ganttb. 1746USAmerican chaplain
Henry Ganttb. 1861USAmerican engineer (1861-1919)
Bob Ganttb. 1922USAmerican basketball player (1922–1994)
David Ganttb. 1941USAmerican politician
Harvey Ganttb. 1943USAmerican architect and politician (born 1943)
Erica Boyerb. 1956USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress (1956–2009)
Nicole Mitchellb. 1967USnot in their usual nameAmerican jazz flutist
Mark Ganttb. 1968USAmerican actor
Ashley Ganttb. 1985USAmerican lawyer, politician, and educator
Soren GanttUSresearcher

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 1 country.

Official registers attesting Gantt
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010	2010	9.1K	#3,891
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020	2020	8.7K	#3,956
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000	2000	8.7K	#3,747
US United States	SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)	1970	5	—
US United States	wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement)	—	—	—

Reference works 3

Dictionary of American Family Names
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.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Gantt?: We estimate roughly 160 thousand people bear Gantt (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Gantt have the most bearers?: We estimate about 158 thousand people bear Gantt in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled gantt.
Where is Gantt most common?: Gantt is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.1 thousand people carrying it.
How common is Gantt compared with other names?: In Liberia, Gantt is the 43rd most common surname of 6,092 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Gantt mean?: Recorded meaning: probably a variant of French, English, or German Gant.

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About this data

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

Data snapshot 2026-09-12. 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, “Gantt” — the 43rd most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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