Southgate
loc · Latin script
Meaning: (i) Person from Southgate, Norfolk, meaning ‘southern gate’; (ii) person who lives near a southern gate
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Southgate is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- KYCayman Islands
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 195 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) Person from Southgate, Norfolk, meaning ‘southern gate’; (ii) person who lives near a southern gate.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Southgate 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 | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 420 | Southgate | 195 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3.9K | Southgate | 180 |
| AU Australia | — | — | Southgate | 97 |
| KY Cayman Islands | — | — | Southgate | 1 |
| CN China | — | — | Southgate | 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 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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)
Southgate 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 English, Dweller near the south gate, especially of some ancient town; first attested Osbert de Sudgate 1197 P (Ess).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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)
- William Wright Southgateb. 1800USAmerican politician (1800-1849)
- Horatio Southgateb. 1812USAmerican bishop (1812–1894)
- Nathaniel Shalerb. 1841USnot in their usual nameAmerican paleontologist and geologist (1841–1906)
- Hugh McLellan Southgateb. 1871USAmerican philatelist (1871-1940)
- Cyril Southgateb. 1894GBBritish rower
- Vera Southgateb. 1916born:1916|died:2009|; Southgate, Vera, 1916-2009
- Tony Southgateb. 1940GBBritish engineer
- William Southgateb. 1941NZNew Zealand conductor and composer
- Troy Southgateb. 1965GBBritish far-right activist and publisher
- Gareth Southgateb. 1970GBEnglish professional football manager and former player (born 1970)
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 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 3.9K | #2,022 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 420 | #47,485 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 405 | #51,396 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 404 | #54,978 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Southgate mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) Person from Southgate, Norfolk, meaning ‘southern gate’; (ii) person who lives near a southern gate. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Southgate have the most bearers?
- Southgate is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled southgate.
What do you want to know about Southgate?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/southgateThe 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, “Southgate”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.