Net
org · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Net is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: just.
- GAGabon≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 123K
- ISIceland1 in 175K
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 Net itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
21,610 named Nate, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Gabon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nate in US United States and নেট in BD Bangladesh.
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)
just
Sources 1
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Net 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 | 21,610as Nate | 1 in 15K | 21K | Nate | 90 |
| FR France | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 123K | 19 | — | 1 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 308K | — | নেট | 8 |
| IT Italy | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 973K | 6 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 58as Nate | 1 in 176K | 58 | — | 1 |
| GA Gabon | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 1 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | 23as Nate | 1 in 82K | 23 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
21,610 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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)
- Blai Net i Sunyerb. 1887ESSpanish educationist and pianist (1887-1948)
- Manuel Ignacio Netb. 1931ARArgentinian architect
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 170 | #110,517 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 118 | #141,140 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 19 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Net mean?
- Recorded meaning: just
- In which country does Net have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Nate, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Net?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 2 people named Net in 2026, about 1 in 175 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Net?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/netThe 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, “Net”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.