Abt
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Abt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In English, recorded as Initialism of all but thesis.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 8.8K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 79K
- USUnited States1 in 240K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.8K (inferred from the name graph)
1,388 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Abt 'abbot'; also Jewish from Opatow
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Abt is read(measured from records)
Abt is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English42%
Initialism of all but thesis.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Franz, German composer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- German26%
from Abt 'abbot'; also Jewish from Opatow
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
abbot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Berufsname zu mhd./mnd. abbet, apt 'Abt'; 1642+24 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
- Spanish15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Abt in Spanish.
- French9.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Abt in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Abt 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 | 1,388 | 1 in 240K | 1.4K | Abt | 39 |
| CH Switzerland | 960 | 1 in 8.8K | 960 | Abt | 23 |
| AR Argentina | 573 | 1 in 79K | 573 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 43 | 1 in 249K | 43 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 26 | 1 in 8.1M | 26 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
1,388 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)
Abt 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 Western Frisian, abbot (the monastic superior of an abbey)
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)
- Karl Friedrich Abtb. 1733DEGerman actor
- Franz Abtb. 1819DEGerman composer and choral conductor (1819–1885)
- Carl Roman Abtb. 1850CHSwiss inventor (1850–1933)
- Valentine Abtb. 1873USAmerican composer and mandolinist
- Helmut Abtb. 1925USAmerican astrophysicist (1925-2024)
- Felix Abtb. 1955CHAffairs specialist
- Katharina Abtb. 1967DEGerman actress and voice actress
- Christian Abtb. 1967DEGerman racecar driver
- Alexander Abtb. 1976RUfigure skater
- Daniel Abtb. 1992DEGerman racing driver
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(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,469 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,812 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,232 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 960 | #1,242 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 573 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 43 | #32,331 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 43 | #11,416 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 26 | #164,002 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #60,527 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
- Where does the name Abt come from?
- from Abt 'abbot'; also Jewish from Opatow Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What does the name Abt mean?
- In English, Initialism of all but thesis.
- In which country does Abt have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Abt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abt.
- Where is Abt most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Abt is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 8.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Abt?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,388 people named Abt in 2010, about 1 in 240 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abtThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Abt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.