Gantt
surname · Latin script
Meaning: probably a variant of French, English, or German Gant
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
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.
- 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 393 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
158,421 named Hunt, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Liberia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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 in the world
(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 158,421as Hunt | 1 in 2.1K | 158K | Gantt | 393 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Gantt | 3 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Gantt | 8 |
| LR Liberia | #62 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Gantt | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 62K | listed | Gantt | 35 |
| EE Estonia | — | 450as Hunt | 1 in 2.7K | 450 | Hunt | 4 |
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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Edward Ganttb. 1746USAmerican chaplain
- Henry Ganttb. 1861USAmerican engineer (1861-1919)
- Bob Ganttb. 1922USAmerican basketball player (1922–1994)
- David Ganttb. 1941USAmerican politician
- Harvey Ganttb. 1943USAmerican architect and politician (born 1943)
- Erica Boyerb. 1956USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress (1956–2009)
- Nicole Mitchellb. 1967USnot in their usual nameAmerican jazz flutist
- Mark Ganttb. 1968USAmerican actor
- Ashley Ganttb. 1985USAmerican lawyer, politician, and educator
- Soren GanttUSresearcher
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.1K | #3,891 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.7K | #3,956 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.7K | #3,747 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Gantt mean, and where does it come from?
- probably a variant of French, English, or German Gant. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Gantt have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 158 thousand people named Hunt, more than in any other country we hold.
- 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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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ganttThe 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, “Gantt” — the 62nd most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.