English
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from OE Englisc ‘English’; first attested Gillebertus Anglicus 1171 P (He)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɪŋɡlɪʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
English is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 3.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 5.5K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 6.1K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 505 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
46,393 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
from OE Englisc ‘English’; first attested Gillebertus Anglicus 1171 P (He)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against English, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
English 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 | #639 | 46,393 | 1 in 7.2K | 46K | English | 505 |
| GB United Kingdom | #605 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | listed | English | 229 |
| CA Canada | #606 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | English | 164 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | English | 24 |
| AU Australia | #536 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | English | 160 |
| IE Ireland | #335 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | English | 102 |
| GY Guyana | — | 403 | 1 in 1.9K | 403 | — | 7 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | listed | English | 3 |
| GD Grenada | — | 42 | 1 in 2.7K | 42 | — | 3 |
46,393 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; the welsh-surnames-morgan-1985 register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
English 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 Hindi, speaking and well educated, these families tended to have little
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
In English, Of or pertaining to England.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, strait betvteen England & France
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, lang.. Europe, N. America
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, English Channel [La Manche]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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(measured from records)
- William Hayden Englishb. 1822USAmerican politician (1822–1896)
- William Englishb. 1929USAmerican computer engineer (1929–2020)
- Marla Englishb. 1935USAmerican film actress (1935-2012)
- Alex Englishb. 1954USAmerican basketball player/coach
- Bill Englishb. 1961NZPrime Minister of New Zealand from 2016 to 2017
- Ben Englishb. 1964GBBritish pornographic film actor & director
- Corri Englishb. 1978USAmerican actress
- CariDee Englishb. 1985USAmerican model
- Aiden Englishb. 1987USAmerican professional wrestler
- Amber Englishb. 1989USAmerican sport shooter
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 46K | #748 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 45K | #692 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 45K | #757 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 403 | #274 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 42 | #181 |
| GB United Kingdom | Welsh Surnames (Morgan & Morgan, 1985) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name English mean, and where does it come from?
- from OE Englisc ‘English’; first attested Gillebertus Anglicus 1171 P (He) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- What are other forms of the name English?
- In the etymology graph, Hedges, Hagwell and Datton are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce English?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪŋɡlɪʃ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does English have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 46 thousand people named English, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled english.
- Where is English most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, English is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name English?
- In the United States, the national register counted 46,393 people named English in 2010, about 1 in 7.2 thousand residents.
- How common is English compared with other names?
- In the United States, English is the 639th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about English?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/englishThe 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, “English” — the 639th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.