as a Last Name
- 17,973
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Vogt
Meaning & Origins
German: occupational name for a bailiff, farm manager, or other person with supervisory authority, Middle High German voget, Late Latin vocatus, from Latin advocatus, past participle of advocare ‘to call upon (to help)’. The term originally denoted someone who appeared before a court on behalf of some party not permitted to make direct representations, often an ecclesiastical body which was not supposed to have any dealings with temporal authorities.
| 1,720th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 17,973
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Nebraska
- has the most people named Vogt per capita
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