St
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Expressing a sudden desire for silence
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
St is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 8.6K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 12K
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 (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 448 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈39,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled -St in IN India.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Leonards. Pembroke. Cheadle, Bredbury South 2; S. Hereford, Fownhope. Bembroke, C. of Hereford. Tupsley.
Sources 1
- Welsh Surnames
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How St is read(measured from records)
St 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.
- English17%
Expressing a sudden desire for silence.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French14%
initialism of sous-titrée (“subtitled; a non-French film with French subtitles”)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
St 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 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | 6 | St | 448 |
| CA Canada | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | St | 225 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | St | 210 |
| IN India | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 514K | — | -St | 48 |
| FR France | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | St | 6 |
| AU Australia | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 1 | St | 154 |
| BR Brazil | 431 | 1 in 491K | 431 | — | 2 |
| GA Gabon | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 2 | — | 1 |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); the welsh-surnames-morgan-1985 register; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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)
St is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Leonards. Pembroke. Cheadle, Bredbury South 2; S. Hereford, Fownhope. Bembroke, C. of Hereford. Tupsley.
as a nameWelsh Surnames
In Russian, 11 (24) novembre. Stéphanide est son équivalent français. Fête : 19 juillet. 124
as a nameRussian Names
In Russian, de stephanos, couronné et eidos, descendant.
as a nameRussian Names
In Russian, de stephanos, couronné.
as a nameRussian Names
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 431 | #19,446 |
| GB United Kingdom | Welsh Surnames (Morgan & Morgan, 1985) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Dictionary of American 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 St come from?
- Leonards. Pembroke. Cheadle, Bredbury South 2; S. Hereford, Fownhope. Bembroke, C. of Hereford. Tupsley. Recorded by Welsh Surnames.
- What does the name St mean?
- In English, Expressing a sudden desire for silence.
- In which country does St have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 39 thousand people named St in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled st.
- How common is the name St?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 431 people named St, about 1 in 491 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stThe 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, “St”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.