Bodnár
surname · Latin script
Meaning: cooper
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈbodnaːr/(recorded in a dictionary) Hungarian · from Wiktionary
Bodnár is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. In Hungary it is the 81st most common surname.
- HUHungary≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- SKSlovakia1 in 2.7K
- PLPoland1 in 8.6K
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 Bodnár 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 345 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 named Боднар, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Bodnar in US United States, PL Poland, RO Romania and Боднар in UA Ukraine, RU Russia.
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)cooper
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bodnár 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #160 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Боднар | 60 |
| HU Hungary | #81 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 13K | Bodnár | 119 |
| US United States | — | 5,502 | 1 in 60K | 5.5K | Bodnar | 345 |
| PL Poland | — | 4,433 | 1 in 8.6K | 2.2K | Bodnar | 2 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Боднар | 120 |
| SK Slovakia | #556 | 2,048 | 1 in 2.7K | 2K | Bodnár | 26 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Bodnar | 21 |
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; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)- Ivan Bodnárb. 1877Czechoslovak senator of Czechoslovak National Parliament and Russian nation politician
- Jenő Bodnárb. 1889HUactor (1889-1953)
- Sándor Bodnárb. 1890HUHungarian association football player (1890-1955)
- Éva Bodnárb. 1922HU(1922–1994) art historian
- András Bodnárb. 1942HUHungarian water polo player
- Erika Bodnárb. 1948HUHungarian actress
- István Bodnárb. 1958HU(1958–) Hungarian philosopher
- Zoltán Bodnárb. 1958HUHungarian economist
- Bodnár Juditb. 1963HUHungarian sociologist
- László Bodnárb. 1979HUassociation football player (b. 1979)
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Bodnár mean, and where does it come from?
- cooper Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bodnár?
- It depends on the language: in Hungarian /ˈbodnaːr/ (Wiktionary); in Slovak /ˈbɔdnaːr/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Bodnár have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Боднар in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Bodnár?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,502 people named Bodnár in 2010, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
- How common is Bodnár compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Bodnár is the 160th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bodn%C3%A1rThe 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, “Bodnár” — the 160th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.