The Gantt surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 9,122 people carried this name — #3,891 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 32,400 people counted. That is up 5% from 8,695 in 2000.

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In print

Gantt in American newspapers,
1809–1919.

Newspaper page from Grand Forks Daily Herald carrying the name Gantt
Grand Forks Daily Herald 1914-12-24
Newspaper page from Springfield Weekly Republican carrying the name Gantt
Springfield Weekly Republican 1919-09-25
Newspaper page from The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser carrying the name Gantt
The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser 1809-07-03

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 45,659 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Gantt in Australian newspapers,
1850s–1950s.

69 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Gantt. The most, 16, date from the 1920s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in New South Wales, at 1.4 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 33
Victoria 15
Queensland 9
Western Australia 7
South Australia 3
ACT (Canberra) 1
Tasmania 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Gantt.

Who carried it

People named Gantt,
with a public archive behind them.

  • James Britton Gantt
    James Britton Gantt 1845–1912 · jurist
  • Henry Gantt
    Henry Gantt 1861–1919 · inventor
  • Paul H. Gantt
    Paul H. Gantt 1907–1979 · lawyer
  • Bob Gantt
    Bob Gantt 1922–1994 · basketball player
  • David Gantt
    David Gantt 1941–2020 · politician
  • Edward Gantt 1746–1837 · physician

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Gantt,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States554 records

554 records of the Gantt name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 379
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 117
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 25
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 18
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 4
  • Irish Famine arrivals at New York, 1846–1851 3
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 3
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 3
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 1
  • Sacramento County historic burials 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Theodore R. Gantt

    Born 1904 in Maryland. Enlisted 1942 at Baltimore; porter from Baltimore City. Veteran; died 1980, buried at Baltimore National Cemetery, Maryland.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Samuel Lee Gantt

    Born 1945; from Montgomery, Alabama. U.S. Army, indirect fire infantryman; died of wounds 1970 in Quang Ngai, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Geo Gantt

    Arrived at New York in 1846 aboard the Henry Clay from Liverpool, aged 54; butcher. From Ireland.

    U.S. National Archives, Famine Irish Passenger Records (public domain)

Showing 3 of 554 records for Gantt in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Famine Irish Passenger Records (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · Sacramento County, Historic Burials (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

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