Nett
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Alternative spelling of net (remaining after expenses or deductions)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈnɛt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nett is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 43K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 229K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 38K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 229 (measured from records)
- 1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a Slavic personal name, perhaps composed with Old Slavic netu ‘burning’, ‘fire’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nett is read(measured from records)
Nett is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English71%
Alternative spelling of net (remaining after expenses or deductions).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German14%
from a Slavic personal name, perhaps composed with Old Slavic netu ‘burning’, ‘fire’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
nice
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
Respelling of the German habitational name Nette, from any of several places so named and a river near Osnabriick.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
nice; friendly; likable
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
variant of McNett.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nett 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Nett | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Nett | 91 |
| US United States | 1,454 | 1 in 229K | 1.5K | Nett | 229 |
| IT Italy | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 247K | — | Nett | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 220 | 1 in 38K | 220 | Nett | 20 |
| CA Canada | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 185K | — | Nett | 32 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Nett | 2 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Adolphe Frédéric Nettb. 1822BEBelgian engraver (printmaker), draftsman, wood engraver
- Edgar NettDEPh.D. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 1978
- Jason NettCACanadian composer
- Ralf NettDEresearcher
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 21 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,473 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,831 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,619 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 220 | #5,776 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Nett come from?
- from a Slavic personal name, perhaps composed with Old Slavic netu ‘burning’, ‘fire’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Nett?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnɛt/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Nett mean?
- In English, Alternative spelling of net (remaining after expenses or deductions).
- In which country does Nett have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Nett in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nett.
- Where is Nett most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nett is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nett?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,454 people named Nett in 2010, about 1 in 229 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nettThe 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, “Nett”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.