Kìtt

surname · Latin script

Kìtt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: * As an English surname, from Kit, a pet form of Christopher; also from kit (“vessel of hooped staves”).

rarermore common
  • GYGuyana1 in 6.8K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 115K
  • FIFinland1 in 242K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,900 people, 2010

Sources
3 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

Derivation of Kìtt: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Kìtt
  1. Middle High Germankīde(measured from records)
  2. Old High German*chīdi(measured from records)
  3. Proto-Germanic*kīþą“sprout“sprout, seedling”(measured from records)

* As an English surname, from Kit, a pet form of Christopher; also from kit (“vessel of hooped staves”). * As a German surname, from kit (“sprout, offshoot”), from Middle High German kīde, from Old High German *chīdi, from Proto-Germanic *kīþą (“sprout, seedling”). Compare Alemannic German chiide.

Sources 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
  • Wiktionary
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kìtt 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 Kìtt is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,9001 in 115K2.9K—1
GY Guyana1101 in 6.8K110——
BR Brazil391 in 5.4M39——
FI Finland231 in 242K23——
ES Spain101 in 5M10——
BE Belgium31 in 3.9M3——

2,900 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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kìtt under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kìtt mean, and where does it come from?
* As an English surname, from Kit, a pet form of Christopher; also from kit (“vessel of hooped staves”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
In which country does Kìtt have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Kìtt, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Kìtt most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kìtt is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 6.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kìtt?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,900 people named Kìtt in 2010, about 1 in 115 thousand residents.

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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, “Kìtt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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