Nétt
surname · Latin script
Nétt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: * As a German surname, from Middle High German nett, from Old French net (“clean”), ultimately from Latin *nittus. * As an Irish surname, variant of McNett.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 38K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 186K
- USUnited States1 in 229K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
1,454 people, 2010
Reference-verified
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nett in US United States, DZ Algeria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle High Germannett(measured from records)
- Old Frenchnet“clean”(measured from records)
- Latin*nittus(measured from records)
* As a German surname, from Middle High German nett, from Old French net (“clean”), ultimately from Latin *nittus. * As an Irish surname, variant of McNett.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nétt counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,454 | 1 in 229K | 1.5K | Nett | 15 |
| CH Switzerland | 220 | 1 in 38K | 220 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 27 | 1 in 7.8M | 27 | — | — |
| DZ Algeria | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Nett | 2 |
| NO Norway | 12 | 1 in 456K | 12 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
1,454 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nétt mean, and where does it come from?
- * As a German surname, from Middle High German nett, from Old French net (“clean”), ultimately from Latin *nittus. * As an Irish surname, variant of McNett. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Nétt have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Nétt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nett.
- Where is Nétt most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nétt is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nétt?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,454 people named Nétt in 2010, about 1 in 229 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%A9ttThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Nétt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.