Mouat
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a French place-name Montaut (several places); first attested Robert de Montealto 1124–53 Black
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/mowat/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Mouat is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 50Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 150Kfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 150Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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 Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
≈270 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a French place-name Montaut (several places); first attested Robert de Montealto 1124–53 Black
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mouat 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 252K | — | Mouat | 85 |
| US United States | 196 | 1 in 1.7M | 229 | Mouat | 119 |
| AU Australia | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | Mouat | 55 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 288K | — | Mouat | 4 |
| CL Chile | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 152K | — | Mouat | 27 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Mouat | 35 |
| IE Ireland | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 168K | — | Mouat | 5 |
| LS Lesotho | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Mouat | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)- James Mouatb. 1815GBBritish Army surgeon-general
- Frederic J. Mouatb. 1816GBBritish physician, and civil servant in India
- Mike Mouatb. 1954CAOlympic field hockey player
- Bruce Mouatb. 1994GBScottish curler
- John Alexander MouatBritish Royal Navy officer, lieutenant in 1815
- Cameron T. MouatNZPh.D. University of Canterbury 2001
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 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mouat mean, and where does it come from?
- from a French place-name Montaut (several places); first attested Robert de Montealto 1124–53 Black Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Mouat?
- In Spanish /mowat/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Mouat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 274 people named Mouat in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mouat.
- How common is the name Mouat?
- In the United States, the national register counted 196 people named Mouat in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Mouat?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mouatThe 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, “Mouat”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.