Nugent
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Nogent, northern France; from a Latinized Gaulish place-name meaning ‘new settlement’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈnudʒənt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nugent is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 4.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 9.6K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 11K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 417 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)
15,977 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
person from Nogent, northern France; from a Latinized Gaulish place-name meaning ‘new settlement’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nugent 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 | — | 15,977 | 1 in 21K | 16K | Nugent | 417 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 5.7K | Nugent | 190 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Nugent | 5 |
| AU Australia | #893 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Nugent | 163 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Nugent | 156 |
| IE Ireland | #316 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | listed | Nugent | 106 |
| JM Jamaica | #372 | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Nugent | 17 |
15,977 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); the irish-family-names-grehan-1993 register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Nugent 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 English, from one or other of the many French places called Nogent; first attested Philip de Nugent 1203 Pl (Sa)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Nuinseann/Nogent-derived surname; sept in Westmeath, with a branch at Aghavarton Castle, Cork
as a nameIrish family names
In English, from any of several places in N France, such as Nogentsur-Oise, named with L Novientum, apparently an altered form of a Gaul, name meaning ‘new settlement’. Nuhimovsky see Nahum Nukhimovich see Nahum Nulty see McNulty Patr.: Eng.: Nutting.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A surname from Norman.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, Nuinseann. One of the hibernicized Norman families (de Nogent). Members of the main branch in Co. Westmeath were found on both sides in the ever recurring wars with England; that of Co. Cork, which was located near Carrigaline, formed a sept with a chief in the Irish fashion. The latter were originally de Wìnchedon. Bibl; IF Map Cork and Westmeath. See also Gilsenan
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- George Nugentb. 1757GBBritish Army officer (1757-1849)
- Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandosb. 1776GBBritish politician (1776–1839)
- Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandosb. 1823GBBritish soldier, politician, and administrator (1823-1889)
- J. C. Nugentb. 1868USAmerican actor and screenwriter (1868-1947)
- Elliott Nugentb. 1896USAmerican actor, playwright, writer, and film director (1896-1980)
- Frank S. Nugentb. 1908USscreenwriter, film critic (1908–1965)
- Carol Nugentb. 1937USAmerican actress
- Ted Nugentb. 1948USAmerican rock musician
- Jim Jefferiesb. 1977AUnot in their usual nameAustralian-American stand-up comedian, actor and writer
- David Nugentb. 1985GBEnglish association football player (born 1985)
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 32 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 16K | #2,281 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 16K | #2,257 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 16K | #2,132 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 5.7K | #1,404 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| IE Ireland | Irish Family Names (Grehan, 1993) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Nugent mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Nogent, northern France; from a Latinized Gaulish place-name meaning ‘new settlement’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Nugent?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnudʒənt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Nugent have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Nugent, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nugent.
- How common is the name Nugent?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,977 people named Nugent in 2010, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
- How common is Nugent compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Nugent is the 316th most common surname of 73,729 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Nugent” — the 316th most common surname in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.