Hunt
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hunt is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In New Zealand it is the 72nd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from OE hunta ‘hunter, huntsman’; first attested Humphrey le Hunte 1203 FFSx.
- NZNew Zealand1 in 1.4K◐
- AUAustralia1 in 1.5K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈160K ●
- #699 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 493 ●
- 1 in 2.1K ◐
across 11 countries
of 21M surnames
recorded for this name
1.6M records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
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●
from OE hunta ‘hunter, huntsman’; first attested Humphrey le Hunte 1203 FFSx
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language 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 | #145 | 158,421 | 1.3M rec. | 1 in 2.1K | 158K | Hunt | 493 |
| GB United Kingdom | #95 | 141,125 | 112K rec. | — | listed | Hunt | 248 |
| AU Australia | #106 | 56,126 | 52K rec. | — | — | Hunt | 222 |
| CA Canada | #127 | 33,602 | 32K rec. | — | — | Hunt | 196 |
| IT Italy | #198 | 7,810 | 7.9K rec. | — | — | Hunt | 36 |
| NZ New Zealand | #72 | 5,443 | 4.3K rec. | — | — | Hunt | 122 |
| DE Germany | — | 4,883 | 4.8K rec. | — | — | Hunt | 108 |
| IE Ireland | #249 | 3,929 | 3.7K rec. | — | — | Hunt | 94 |
| SG Singapore | #156 | 3,469 | 3.5K rec. | — | — | Hunt | 34 |
| RU Russia | — | 3,332 | 3.4K rec. | — | — | Hunt | 36 |
| EG Egypt | — | 2,247 | 2.3K rec. | — | — | Hunt | 22 |
| AT Austria | #651 | 814 | 793 rec. | — | — | Hunt | 32 |
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●
- English1.7M84%
- 58K3%
- Spanish56K3%
- Welsh52K3%
- German14K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 1,657,969 | 84% |
| 57,979 | 3% | |
| Spanish | 55,936 | 3% |
| Welsh | 52,233 | 3% |
| German | 14,092 | 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●
Hunt 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 English, in some cases (in Ulster) of English origin, but more commonly used as a quasi-translation of various Irish surnames such as 6 Fiaich (see Fee).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, (a primary deriv. of huntian to hunt). The term was used 310 Huzard Hurle Hurle see Earl Huston see Houston Hurlen see Harling
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Hundt.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, v., kpe
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1880 | 5 |
| 1923 | 6 |
| 1948 | 7 |
| 1949 | 8 |
| 1950 | 9 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1953 | 5 |
| 1954 | 9 |
| 1955 | 8 |
| 1956 | 5 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1960 | 8 |
| 1961 | 6 |
| 1962 | 8 |
| 1964 | 7 |
| 1966 | 6 |
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1975 | 5 |
| 1983 | 6 |
| 1988 | 6 |
| 1990 | 6 |
| 2011 | 11 |
| 2012 | 7 |
| 2013 | 8 |
| 2014 | 10 |
| 2015 | 8 |
| 2016 | 7 |
| 2017 | 9 |
| 2018 | 7 |
| 2019 | 8 |
| 2020 | 11 |
| 2021 | 10 |
| 2023 | 7 |
| 2024 | 9 |
| 2025 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 35 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- William Holman Huntb. 1827GBPre-Raphaelite artist (1827-1910)
- Martita Huntb. 1900GBBritish actress (1900–1969)
- Marsha Huntb. 1917USAmerican actress (1917–2022)
- Roger Huntb. 1938GBEnglish associsation football player (1938-2021)
- Tim Huntb. 1943GBBiochemist; Nobel laureate
- Linda Huntb. 1945USAmerican actress
- Bonnie Huntb. 1961USAmerican actress and comedian
- Helen Huntb. 1963USAmerican actress
- Jeremy Huntb. 1966GBBritish politician
- Blu Huntb. 1995USAmerican actress
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 47 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 158K | #169 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 153K | #173 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 152K | #157 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 450 | #92 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 450 | #67 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 435 | #8,944 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 435 | #8,922 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 403 | #22,206 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 388 | #99 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 357 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 221 | #11,893 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 182 | #8,630 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 130 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hunt?
- We estimate roughly 160 thousand people bear Hunt (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hunt have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 158 thousand people bear Hunt in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled hunt.
- How common is Hunt compared with other names?
- In the United States, Hunt is the 145th most common surname of 7,257,200 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Hunt mean?
- Recorded meaning: from OE hunta ‘hunter, huntsman’; first attested Humphrey le Hunte 1203 FFSx
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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, “Hunt” — the 145th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.