Alioth
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Alioth is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United States. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 144K◐
- ITItaly1 in 1.7M
- USUnited States1 in 4.2M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| US United States | 637 | 70% |
| CH Switzerland | 141 | 15% |
| IT Italy | 22 | 2% |
| GB United Kingdom | 20 | 2% |
| CA Canada | 16 | 2% |
≈836 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English70577%
- German14316%
- Italian222%
- Spanish182%
- French101%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 705 | 77% |
| German | 143 | 16% |
| Italian | 22 | 2% |
| Spanish | 18 | 2% |
| French | 10 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Johann Siegmund Aliothb. 1788CHSwiss manufacturer (1788-1850)
- Friedrich Sigmund Aliothb. 1819French medic and naturalist in Switzerland (1819 - 1878)
- Achilles Aliothb. 1822FR(1822-1898)
- Max Aliothb. 1842architect (1842-1892)
- Ludwig Rudolf Aliothb. 1848CH(1848-1916)
- Max Aliothb. 1883CHarchitect (1883-1968)
- Sigismund Heinrich Aliothb. 1904CH(1904-1987)
- Max Aliothb. 1930architect (1930-2010)
- Martin Aliothb. 1954CHSwiss journalist
- Gabrielle Aliothb. 1955CHSwiss writer, journalist and translator
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●
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 55 | #17,311 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 6 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2004 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1977 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-09-06 data build · 6 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Alioth?
- Our records include 836 bearers of Alioth across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Alioth have the most bearers?
- Alioth is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Alioth”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.