Wyatt
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From the medieval male personal name Wyot, from Old English Wigheard, literally 'war-brave'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wyatt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 4.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 5.2K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 5.8K
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 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 497 (measured from records)
- 1 in 961 (inferred from the name graph)
52,211 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
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)
From the medieval male personal name Wyot, from Old English Wigheard, literally 'war-brave'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wyatt 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 | #573 | 52,211 | 1 in 6.4K | 151K | Wyatt | 497 |
| GB United Kingdom | #466 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | 13 | Wyatt | 235 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Wyatt | 12 |
| CA Canada | #827 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | 119 | Wyatt | 158 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Wyatt | 23 |
| AU Australia | #621 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | 91 | Wyatt | 172 |
| IE Ireland | #518 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Wyatt | 34 |
| NZ New Zealand | #531 | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | 35 | Wyatt | 84 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 56 | 1 in 961 | 56 | — | 8 |
52,211 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
Wyatt is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, diminutive of Old French Guy < Old Germanic Wido; the form Wyatt represents Wyard; first attested Wiot de Acham 1192 P (L)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Transferred use of the surname, derived from a medieval given name representing a Norman French alteration of the Old English personal name Wigheard, 252 from wig ‘war’ + heard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A surname originating as a patronymic.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Thomas Wyattb. 1503GBEnglish poet and diplomat (1503-1542)
- Thomas Wyattb. 1521GBEnglish rebel leader during the reign of Queen Mary I (1521-1554)
- James Wyattb. 1746GBEnglish architect; (1746-1813)
- Jane Wyattb. 1910USAmerican actress (1910–2006)
- Ron Wyattb. 1933USAmerican amateur archaeologist (1933–1999)
- David K. Wyattb. 1937UShistorian (1937–2006)
- Robert Wyattb. 1945GBEnglish recording artist; musician, songwriter, singer (1945-)
- Rupert Wyattb. 1972GBEnglish writer and film director
- Chris Wyattb. 1975USAmerican screenwriter, film producer and actor
- Kimberly Wyattb. 1982USAmerican dancer and choreographer
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 64 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 52K | #653 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 51K | #604 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 50K | #662 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 56 | #126 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Wyatt mean, and where does it come from?
- From the medieval male personal name Wyot, from Old English Wigheard, literally 'war-brave'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Wyatt have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 52 thousand people named Wyatt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wyatt.
- Where is Wyatt most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wyatt is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 961 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wyatt?
- In the United States, the national register counted 52,211 people named Wyatt in 2010, about 1 in 6.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Wyatt compared with other names?
- In the United States, Wyatt is the 573rd most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wyattThe 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, “Wyatt” — the 573rd most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.