Follett
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Follett is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 2,950 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): S England: esp. Somerset;. nickname, occupational name from Anglo-Norman French fol(l)et ‘fool, jester’. Compare Folliot . Follett is also written ฟอลเล็ต in Thai.
- USUnited States1 in 113K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 304K
- BEBelgium1 in 71Kas Follet
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 Follett itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- 1 in 113K (inferred from the name graph)
2,950 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Follett in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled ฟอลเล็ต 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): S England: esp. Somerset;. nickname, occupational name from Anglo-Norman French fol(l)et ‘fool, jester’. Compare Folliot . Further information: This surname may have become confused with Folliot .
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where the surname Follett is found
(measured from records)Follett 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 | 2,950 | 1 in 113K | 3K | Follett | 4 |
| BE Belgium | 165as Follet | 1 in 71K | 165 | — | — |
| TH Thailand | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 853K | register #454,680 | ฟอลเล็ต | 31 |
| NO Norway | 18 | 1 in 304K | 18 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 16as Follet | 1 in 3.1M | 16 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 5as Follet | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | — |
2,950 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Barbara Follettb. 1942GBBritish politician (born 1942)
- Rosemary Follettb. 1948AUAustralian politician
- Ken Follettb. 1949GBBritish novelist (born 1949)
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Follett mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): S England: esp. Somerset;. nickname, occupational name from Anglo-Norman French fol(l)et ‘fool, jester’. Compare Folliot . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Follett?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Follett, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled follett. After it come Belgium, Thailand, Norway and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Follett most common?
- Follett is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 113 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Follett?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,950 people named Follett in 2010, about 1 in 113 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/follettThe 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, “Follett” — ranked 10294th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.