Anhalt
loc · Latin script
Meaning: indication
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Anhalt is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 32K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 299K
- USUnited States1 in 383K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Anhalt itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- 1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
868 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ангальт in RU Russia.
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)
indication
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anhalt 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 | 868 | 1 in 383K | 881 | — | 5 |
| PL Poland | 128 | 1 in 299K | 67 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 107 | 1 in 32K | 107 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Ангальт | 51 |
| BR Brazil | 45 | 1 in 4.7M | 45 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 14 | 1 in 600K | 14 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 7 | 1 in 838K | 7 | — | — |
868 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; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)
Anhalt is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, state, Germany
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, Toponymic surname from the landscape name Anhalt (12. Jh. Anehalt; mhd. anhalt 'Anhaltspunkt, Ursache', spätmhd. also 'Haltepunkt, Station').
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In Swedish, stop, station
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)
- John George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessaub. 1567DEPrince of Anhalt-Dessau
- Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Köthenb. 1579DEGerman prince
- Emanuel Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthenb. 1671DEPrince of Anhalt-Köthen (1671-1704)
- Prince August Ludwig I, Prince of Anhalt-Köthenb. 1697DEPrince of Anhalt-Köthen
- Duke Ferdinand I, Duke of Anhalt-Köthenb. 1769DEruling member of the German Confederation, Prussian general
- Princess Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoymb. 1797DEarchduchess of Austria (1797-1817)
- Ida von Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoymb. 1804DEGerman princess (1804-1828)
- Friedrich II.b. 1856DEnot in their usual nameDuke of Anhalt from 1904 until 1918
- Edward Anhaltb. 1914USAmerican screenwriter (1914–2000)
- Edna Anhaltb. 1914USscreenwriter (1914–1987)
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 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 881 | #28,736 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 868 | #27,707 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 843 | #27,028 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 107 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 67 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 67 | #40,550 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 61 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 61 | #42,975 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 45 | #112,812 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 14 | #47,506 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #53,372 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Anhalt mean, and where does it come from?
- indication Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Anhalt have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 868 people named Anhalt, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Anhalt most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Anhalt is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 32 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Anhalt?
- In the United States, the national register counted 868 people named Anhalt in 2010, about 1 in 383 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/anhaltThe 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, “Anhalt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.