Lintott
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɫɪntoʊt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lintott is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Somerset and Devon. nickname apparently from Middle English lintern ‘lintel for a door or window’.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- NZNew Zealand
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Somerset and Devon. nickname apparently from Middle English lintern ‘lintel for a door or window’.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Lintott 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 Swedish, a person (usually a child) with flaxen (pale yellow brown) hair, a towhead
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)
- Henry John Lintottb. 1877GBBritish painter (1877-1965)
- Evelyn Lintottb. 1883GBEnglish footballer and British soldier (1883-1916)
- James Lintottb. 1886GBBritish athlete
- Henry Lintottb. 1908GBBritish diplomat 1908-1995
- Andrew Lintottb. 1936GBBritish classical scholar
- Graham Lintottb. 1955NZSenior Royal New Zealand Air Force officer
- Chris Lintottb. 1980GBEnglish astrophysicist, TV presenter, and GalaxyZoo founder
- Jazz Lintottb. 1986actor
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)
Attested in 7 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 116 | #134,037 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 112 | #147,954 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 109 | #150,452 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Lintott mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Somerset and Devon. nickname apparently from Middle English lintern ‘lintel for a door or window’. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Lintott?
- A machine transcription gives /ɫɪntoʊt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lintott have the most bearers?
- Lintott is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
What do you want to know about Lintott?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lintottThe 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, “Lintott”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.