Slot

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Dutch: lock

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Slot is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 4.9K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.5M
  • DKDenmark1 in 7.3K

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.

Netherlands (measured from records)

3,547 people, 2007

Sources
127 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

dweller by the muddy place; first attested Walter de la Slot 1275 RH (Norfolk)

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

How Slot is read(measured from records)

Slot is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.

  • Dutch37%

    lock

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch

    lock (something used for fastening)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English31%

    dweller by the muddy place; first attested Walter de la Slot 1275 RH (Norfolk)

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

    A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Danish15%

    castle, palace, manor house

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Slot 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.

Where Slot is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands#3653,5471 in 4.9K3.5KSlot95
DK Denmark—8001 in 7.3K800—2
ID Indonesia—≈630 est.≈1 in 424K—Slot13
US United States—2191 in 1.5M239Slot127
ZA South Africa—≈150 est.≈1 in 388K—Slot9
BE Belgium—701 in 167K70Slot10
NO Norway—281 in 195K28—3
JM Jamaica—≈15 est.≈1 in 194K—Slot1

3,547 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Slot is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Danish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Šlöt

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Netherlands, United States, Belgium

    Also written Ślot

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ślot

  • Croatian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian

    Also written Šlot, Слот

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Слот, Сльот

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Slot is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, s. Schlot

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

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)

19001920194019601980Kees Slot, b. 1909Frans Slot, b. 1909Jan Slot, b. 1913Roelof Slot, b. 1921Pieter Jan Slot, b. 1944Gerrie Slot, b. 1954Pauline Slot, b. 1960Marianne Slot, b. 1967Erik-Jan Slot, b. 1977Arne Slot, b. 1978

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 20 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Slot
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20073.5K#286
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—800#507
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020239#84,529
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010219#85,357
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000201#86,341
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200870#20,542
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—28#36,833
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Slot come from?
dweller by the muddy place; first attested Walter de la Slot 1275 RH (Norfolk) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
What are other forms of the name Slot?
In the etymology graph, Schloss and Schlüssel are forms of the same name in other languages.
What does the name Slot mean?
In Dutch, lock
In which country does Slot have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Slot, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled slot.
Where is Slot most common?
Slot is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.9 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Slot?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 3,547 people named Slot in 2007, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
How common is Slot compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Slot is the 365th most common surname of 284,143 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, “Slot” — the 365th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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