Voigt
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: a surname originating as an occupation
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈvɔɪɡt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Voigt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 94th most common surname.
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 18Kas Vogt
- DKDenmark1 in 9.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Voigt itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 253 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈37,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, 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)
a surname originating as an occupation
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Voigt is read(measured from records)
Voigt is one spelling over 3 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.
- English44%
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as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- German41%
a surname originating as an occupation
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Aus einer Berufs-/Amtsbezeichnung: Vogt, Verwaltungsbeamter/Schutz- und Gerichtsbeamter; Typ mit 4 Varianten, 16338 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Berufsname: Vogt/Verwalter, Amtmann; Bearer count 16338.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
- Portuguese5.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Voigt in Portuguese.
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)
Voigt 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #94 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Voigt | 193 |
| CN China | — | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Voigt | 3 |
| US United States | — | 18,061as Vogt | 1 in 18K | 18K | Voigt | 253 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 4,799as Vogt | 1 in 1.8K | 4.8K | Voigt | 30 |
| BR Brazil | — | 4,444 | 1 in 48K | 4.4K | — | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | 626as Vogt | 1 in 8.7K | 626 | — | 12 |
| DK Denmark | — | 590 | 1 in 9.9K | 590 | — | — |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Georg Voigtb. 1827DEGerman historian (1827–1891)
- Wilhelm Voigtb. 1849LUGerman impostor (1849-1922)
- Woldemar Voigtb. 1850DEGerman physicist (1850–1919)
- Emil Voigtb. 1883GBBritish long-distance runner
- Hans-Heinrich Voigtb. 1921DEGerman astronomer (1921–2017)
- Angela Voigtb. 1951DEEast German long jumper
- Udo Voigtb. 1952DEGerman politician
- Deborah Voigtb. 1960USAmerican operatic soprano
- Jens Voigtb. 1971DEGerman road bicycle racer and cycling broadcaster
- Mario Voigtb. 1977DEGerman politician
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 33 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.3K | #4,722 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.3K | #4,862 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7.1K | #4,584 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.4K | #2,467 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 590 | #718 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 306 | #4,268 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 140 | #11,259 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Voigt mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as an occupation Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Voigt?
- In the etymology graph, Vogt is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Voigt?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈvɔɪɡt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Voigt have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named Voigt in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled voigt.
- How common is the name Voigt?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 4,444 people named Voigt, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.
- How common is Voigt compared with other names?
- In Germany, Voigt is the 94th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/voigtThe 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, “Voigt” — the 94th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.