Felt
surname · Latin script
Meaning: metonymic for FELTERS; earliest attestation not given
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Felt is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- CACanada
- FRFrance
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)metonymic for FELTERS; earliest attestation not given
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Felt is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, Felted fabric or a sample or swab of it; felt.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, field (the practical part of something)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In yol, simple past of vill
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, field
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)- Andrew J. Feltb. 1833USAmerican politician
- Dorr Feltb. 1862USAmerican inventor (1862–1930)
- John H. Feltb. 1867USAmerican architect
- Ephraim Porter Feltb. 1868USAmerican entomologist
- Harry D. Feltb. 1902USUnited States admiral (1902-1992)
- W. Mark Feltb. 1913USWhistleblower who exposed the Watergate scandal (1913-2008)
- Joan Carrollb. 1931USnot in their usual nameAmerican stage and film actress
- Ulrike Feltb. 1957ATAustrian social scientist
- Jan Broberg Feltb. 1962USAmerican actress, singer and dancer
- Malorie FeltUSactress
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.8K | #8,610 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.3K | #9,140 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3K | #10,292 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 107 | #12,101 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 84 | #19,377 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 84 | #8,350 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 60 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 55 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 48 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 47 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 44 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 39 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Felt mean, and where does it come from?
- metonymic for FELTERS; earliest attestation not given Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- What are other forms of the name Felt?
- In the etymology graph, Knight and Filz are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Felt have the most bearers?
- Felt is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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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, “Felt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.