Earth

loc · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Earth is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lincs; also Surrey. locative name from Middle English erthe in the sense ‘plot of arable land’ (Old English erþ).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.4M(measured from records)
  • THThailand≈1 in 600Kas เอิร์ธ

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 Earth 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)

140 people, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
38 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.4M (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

EarthLatin(measured from records)
เอิร์ธThai(measured from records)

Locally spelled เอิร์ธ in TH Thailand.

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)

Main GB Location (1881): Lincs; also Surrey. locative name from Middle English erthe in the sense ‘plot of arable land’ (Old English erþ).

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Earth, 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)

Earth 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.

Where Earth is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1401 in 2.4M188—13
TH Thailand≈120 est.≈1 in 600K#962,302เอิร์ธ38
GB United Kingdom——131——
CZ Czechia——1——
IN India——4——

140 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); MVČR — living population register 2017; the in-instate-surnames-bystate register. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Earth is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Ėåŕțh

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Trembling Earth, b. 1850George Earth, b. 1966Fleur Earth, b. 2000

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 10 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Earth
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020188#102,164
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010135#126,765
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)2002131#27,909
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—4#31,618
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—1#245,096
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 Earth mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Lincs; also Surrey. locative name from Middle English erthe in the sense ‘plot of arable land’ (Old English erþ). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
In which country does Earth have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 140 people named Earth, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Earth most common?
Earth is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.4 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Earth?
In the United States, the national register counted 140 people named Earth in 2020, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.

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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, “Earth”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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