Holdt
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name from Middle Low German holt ‘small wood’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Holdt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 13K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 110Kfew records
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 160Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈750 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)topographic name from Middle Low German holt ‘small wood’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Holdt is found
(measured from records)Holdt 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Holdt | 65 |
| DK Denmark | 465 | 1 in 13K | 465 | Holdt | 3 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 159K | — | Holdt | 19 |
| US United States | 237 | 1 in 1.4M | 299 | Holdt | 142 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Holdt | 39 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 305K | — | Holdt | 14 |
| EE Estonia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 204K | listed | — | 1 |
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; 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Holdt is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, past tense of holde
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Marius Holdtb. 1877DKDanish cinematographer
- Jacob Holdtb. 1947DKDanish photographer
- Olivia Holdtb. 2001DKDanish association football player
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Holdt mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name from Middle Low German holt ‘small wood’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Holdt?
- Mondonomo estimates about 753 people named Holdt in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled holdt. After it come Denmark, South Africa, United States and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Holdt most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Holdt is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Holdt?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 465 people named Holdt, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Holdt?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/holdtThe 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, “Holdt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.