England
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from the country name England; first attested Nicholas de Engelond 1260 AssC
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
England is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.1M(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 821Kas Anglia
- ALAlbania1 in 237K
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 England 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
- 450 (measured from records)
- 1 in 237K (inferred from the name graph)
405 named Anglia, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
from the country name England; first attested Nicholas de Engelond 1260 AssC
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
England 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 | 405as Anglia | 1 in 821K | 30K | England | 450 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | England | 222 |
| EG Egypt | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 3M | — | England | 11 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | England | 6 |
| BR Brazil | 21as Anglia | 1 in 10M | 29 | — | 1 |
| AL Albania | 13 | 1 in 237K | 13 | — | — |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 607K | — | England | 8 |
405 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling anglia. 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 2010; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-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)
England is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, kingdom, Gt. Britain
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Irish, A synonym of English; occasionally also of Anglin. Angland is a variant in north Cork
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
In Danish, England (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmq-osw, a medieval kingdom in Northern Europe
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)
- Henry Vb. 1386GBnot in their usual nameKing of England from 1413 to 1422
- Henry VIb. 1421GBnot in their usual nameKing of England from 1422 to 1461 and from 1470 to 1471, disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453
- Gordon R. Englandb. 1937USAmerican politician
- Mike Englandb. 1941GBWelsh footballer and manager (born 1941)
- Audie Englandb. 1967USAmerican actress
- Dave Englandb. 1969USAmerican stunt performer (born 1969)
- Lynndie Englandb. 1982USAmerican soldier convicted of war crimes
- Jeremy Englandb. 1982USAmerican physicist and rabbi
- Alexander Englandb. 1986AUAustralian actor
- Bethany Englandb. 1994GBEnglish footballer
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 34 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 30K | #1,174 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 29K | #1,113 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 28K | #1,220 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 England mean, and where does it come from?
- from the country name England; first attested Nicholas de Engelond 1260 AssC Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does England have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 405 people named Anglia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is England most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, England is densest in Albania — about 1 in 237 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name England?
- In Albania, the national register counted 13 people named England, about 1 in 237 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/englandThe 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, “England”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.