Baronet
surname · Latin script
Meaning: The bearer of a hereditary title, below a peerage and senior to most knighthoods
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bæɹənɛt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Baronet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 232K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 520K
- CACanada≈1 in 1.1M
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 232K (inferred from the name graph)
≈190 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The bearer of a hereditary title, below a peerage and senior to most knighthoods.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Baronet 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 232K | — | Baronet | 1 |
| US United States | 117 | 1 in 2.8M | 127 | Baronet | 86 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 520K | — | Baronet | 9 |
| PH Philippines | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Baronet | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Baronet | 19 |
| ES Spain | 30 | 1 in 1.7M | 30 | — | 2 |
| AU Australia | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Baronet | 17 |
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 — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Baronet is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, baronet (bearer of a hereditary title, below a peerage and senior to most knighthoods)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, BARONÉT, baroneți, s. m. Titlu de noblețe dat în Anglia membrilor unui ordin de cavaleri și care se moștenește pe linie bărbătească; persoană care are acest titlu.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)
- Clifford Nelson Baronetb. 1934CAprofessor at Université Laval
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 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 127 | #136,807 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 117 | #142,108 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 113 | #136,783 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 30 | #63,251 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 30 | #62,916 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Baronet mean, and where does it come from?
- The bearer of a hereditary title, below a peerage and senior to most knighthoods. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Baronet?
- A machine transcription gives /bæɹənɛt/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Baronet?
- In the etymology graph, Baron is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Baronet have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 185 people named Baronet in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baronet.
- How common is the name Baronet?
- In the United States, the national register counted 117 people named Baronet in 2010, about 1 in 2.8 million 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/baronetThe 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, “Baronet”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.