Gantt

surname · Latin script

Meaning: probably a variant of French, English, or German Gant (Dictionary of American Family Names)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

Pronunciation:Explore pronunciation →

Gantt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Liberia it is the 62nd most common surname. Gantt is also written Хант in Cyrillic.

  • LRLiberia≈1 in 5Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 12Kfew records
  • GHGhana≈1 in 16Kfew records

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 Gantt 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)

158,421 named Hunt, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
393 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Liberia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Gantt in other scripts: Latin and Cyrillic

(measured from records)
KhantGantt in Latin(measured from records)
ХантGantt in Cyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hunt in EE Estonia.

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)

probably a variant of French, English, or German Gant.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where the surname Gantt is found

(measured from records)

Gantt 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 Gantt is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—158,421as Hunt1 in 2.1K158KGantt393
PK Pakistan—≈21,000 est.≈1 in 12K—Gantt3
GH Ghana—≈2,200 est.≈1 in 16K—Gantt8
LR Liberia#62≈1,100 est.≈1 in 5K—Gantt2
GB United Kingdom—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 62KlistedGantt35
EE Estonia—450as Hunt1 in 2.7K450Hunt4

158,421 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling hunt. 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; Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population 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)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gant-T

47 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)
1850190019502000Henry Gantt, b. 1861Erica Boyer, b. 1956Mark Gantt, b. 1968
  • Henry Ganttb. 1861USAmerican engineer (1861-1919)
  • Erica Boyerb. 1956USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress (1956–2009)
  • Mark Ganttb. 1968USAmerican actor

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)
FormalDear Gantt,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Gantt mean, and where does it come from?
probably a variant of French, English, or German Gant. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Gantt?
In the United States, the national register counted about 158 thousand people named Hunt, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Pakistan, Ghana, Liberia and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Gantt?
In the United States, the national register counted 158,421 people named Hunt in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
How common is Gantt compared with other names?
In Liberia, Gantt is the 62nd most common surname of 10,200 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Gantt” — ranked 157th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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