Foote
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Antigua & Barbuda ABEC Voter Registration Roll (2026), 2026
/fʊt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Foote is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lancs; also S England;. see Foot . Footer.
- CACanada≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 15K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 17K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 420 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)
16,425 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
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)Main GB Location (1881): Lancs; also S England;. see Foot . Footer
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world
(measured from records)Foote 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 | — | 16,425 | 1 in 20K | 16K | Foote | 420 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | Foote | 170 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Foote | 144 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 129K | — | Foote | 11 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Foote | 4 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Foote | 134 |
| NZ New Zealand | #736 | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Foote | 89 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Foote | 13 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #206 | — | — | 1 | Foote | 1 |
16,425 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; the ag-abec-voter-roll-2026 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Foote is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, alternative form of fot
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)- Samuel Footeb. 1720GBBritish dramatist
- Henry S. Footeb. 1804USAmerican politician (1804-1880)
- Andrew Hull Footeb. 1806USUnion Navy admiral and United States Navy admiral (1806–1863)
- Eunice Newton Footeb. 1819USAmerican scientist, inventor and women's rights activist (1819–1888)
- Arthur Footeb. 1853USAmerican composer (1853–1937)
- Horton Footeb. 1916USAmerican playwright and screenwriter (1916–2009)
- Shelby Footeb. 1916USAmerican novelist, historian (1916-2005)
- Hallie Footeb. 1950USAmerican actress
- Judy Footeb. 1952CACanadian politician
- Georgia May Footeb. 1991GBBritish actress
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 16K | #2,219 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 16K | #2,063 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 16K | #2,254 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | Antigua & Barbuda ABEC Voter Registration Roll (2026) | 2026 | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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)
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 Foote mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Lancs; also S England;. see Foot . Footer Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Foote?
- A machine transcription gives /fʊt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Foote have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Foote, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled foote.
- How common is the name Foote?
- In the United States, the national register counted 16,425 people named Foote in 2010, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Foote compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Foote is the 206th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/footeThe 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, “Foote” — the 206th most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.