Midgett
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Midgett is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Bermuda it is the 3rd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Perhaps altered spelling of French Miget, from a pet form of the personal name Migel, a southern personal name, Occitan fomi of Michael.
- USUnited States1 in 114K◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 222K
- BMBermuda1 in 3.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.9K ●
- Sources
- 211 ●
- 1 in 114K ◐
across 1 country
26K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin●
Perhaps altered spelling of French Miget, from a pet form of the personal name Migel, a southern personal name, Occitan fomi of Michael.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2,930 | 23K rec. | 1 in 114K | 2.9K | Midgett | 211 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,050 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Midgett | 14 |
| CA Canada | — | 223 | 224 rec. | — | — | Midgett | 16 |
| BM Bermuda | #3 | 188 | 201 rec. | — | — | Midgett | 1 |
| IT Italy | — | 168 | 176 rec. | — | — | Midgett | 4 |
| AU Australia | — | 165 | 161 rec. | — | — | Midgett | 7 |
| LB Lebanon | — | 156 | 156 rec. | — | — | Midgett | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | 102 | 101 rec. | — | — | Midgett | 16 |
| TL Timor-Leste | #41 | 90 | 283 rec. | — | — | Midgett | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 74 | 78 rec. | — | — | Midgett | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 62 | 62 rec. | — | — | Midgett | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 49 | 50 rec. | — | — | Midgett | 2 |
Roughly 2.9K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 114K). 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●
- English25K89%
- 7493%
- Spanish6552%
- German2071%
- Portuguese1411%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 25,436 | 89% |
| 749 | 3% | |
| Spanish | 655 | 2% |
| German | 207 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 141 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Rasmus Midgettb. 1851American surfman (1851–1926)
- John Allen Midgett, Jr.b. 1876USUnited States Coast Guard officer
- Dan MidgettUSbasketball player
- Charles R MidgettUSresearcher
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 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.9K | #10,880 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.9K | #10,242 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.4K | #12,545 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 5 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Midgett?
- We estimate roughly 2.9 thousand people bear Midgett (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Midgett have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 2.9 thousand people bear Midgett in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled midgett.
- How common is Midgett compared with other names?
- In Bermuda, Midgett is the 3rd most common surname of 6,602 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Midgett mean?
- Recorded meaning: Perhaps altered spelling of French Miget, from a pet form of the personal name Migel, a southern personal name, Occitan fomi of Michael.
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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, “Midgett” — the 3rd most common surname in Bermuda. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.