Shadbolt
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Shadbolt is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Herts and Middx. nickname for an archer, from Middle English s(c)hot(e) ‘shoot’ + bolt ‘crossbow bolt, arrow’.
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)Main GB Location (1881): Herts and Middx. nickname for an archer, from Middle English s(c)hot(e) ‘shoot’ + bolt ‘crossbow bolt, arrow’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shadbolt counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1.5K | — |
| US United States | — | 376 | — |
| FI Finland | — | 30 | — |
| ES Spain | — | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | — | 3 | — |
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: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)- Maurice Shadboltb. 1932NZNew Zealand writer (1932–2004)
- Nigel Shadboltb. 1956GBPrinicipal of Jesus College, Oxford; Professor of Computer Science; Chairman of the Open Data Institute
- Caitlyn Shadboltb. 1995AUAustralian singer
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shadbolt mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Herts and Middx. nickname for an archer, from Middle English s(c)hot(e) ‘shoot’ + bolt ‘crossbow bolt, arrow’. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does Shadbolt have the most bearers?
- Shadbolt is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shadboltThe 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, “Shadbolt” — ranked 4786th in the United Kingdom (Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.