Mittag

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.

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Mittag is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In German, in most cases from a Slavic name; compared with slaw. Mittas = Matthias

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

• In German, 1. from Middle High German mittag ‘midday’, ‘south’, hence a nickname for someone who lived or held property which lay to the south of a main settlement. 2. (eastern: Saxony and Lausitz): from Mittak, a Sorbian pet form of the personal name Matthias (see Matthew).

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In German, noon, midday

  as a word·A Frequency Dictionary of German

• In German, noon, midday, late morning, early afternoon (time from about 11 a.m. to 2 p.m)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In German, Übername nach persönlichem Merkmal: 'Mittag' (Mittagszeit); Belegzahl 4 Types/1557 Tokens.

  as a name·Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

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.

• Karl Wilhelm Mittagb. 1813DEGerman author, chronicler of the town of Bischofswerda
• Heinrich Mittagb. 1859DEGerman painter (1859-1920)
• Viktor Mittagb. 1896ATAustrian architect (1896-1962)
• Arthur Mittagb. 1906DEGerman judge and psychiatrist
• Günter Mittagb. 1926DEGerman politician (1926-1994)
• Susanne Mittagb. 1958DEGerman politician
• Peter Franz Mittagb. 1966DEGerman historian of classical antiquity
• Jürgen Mittagb. 1970DEGerman historian and political scientist
• Anja Mittagb. 1985DEGerman footballer
• Lothar Mittagteacher, mayor and poet

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).

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

What does the name Mittag mean, and where does it come from?

from a time-of-day nickname meaning 'midday' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.

How do you pronounce Mittag?

A machine transcription gives /mɪtax/ (IPA) for German.

In which country does Mittag have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 453 people named Mittag, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mittag.

Where is Mittag most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mittag is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 53 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Mittag?

In the United States, the national register counted 453 people named Mittag in 2010, about 1 in 734 thousand residents.