Csányi

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Csányi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi vagy apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: A helynév alapjául szolgáló Csány személynevünk vitatott eredetű. Egyesek szláv átvételnek tartják a cseh Čanibor keresztnévből.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.4M(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 781K
  • CZCzechia1 in 1.1M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

141 people, 2010

Sources
76 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 781K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Csanyi in US United States, BE Belgium, CH Switzerland.

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)

Típusa: Helynévi vagy apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: A helynév alapjául szolgáló Csány személynevünk vitatott eredetű. Egyesek szláv átvételnek tartják a cseh Čanibor keresztnévből. Ugyanakkor élt a ’fehér’ jelentésű čaan [cs™gh™n] szó is személynévként az ótörökben, aminek magyar fejleménye törvényszerűen Csán ~ Csány. Bármelyik etimológiát fogadjuk is el, magyar személynévből, magyar névadással (puszta személynévből minden végződés vagy összetétel nélkül) alakult több Csán ~ Csány település neve is a Történelmi Magyarországon Abaúj, Baranya, Csongrád, Heves, Közép-Szolnok, Torda, Zala vármegyében. Ezek mindegyikéhez járulhatott ’onnan/oda való’ jelentésű -i képző, s belőlük eredetre, származási helyre utaló családnév lett. Ugyanígy családnévvé válhatott a Csan ~ Csán ~ Csány egyénnév is -i birtokjellel, s akkor jelentése ’Csané ~ Csáné ~ Csányé, Csan ~ Csán ~ Csány nevű személy fia, leszármazotta’. Elterjedtsége: A Dunán túl gyakoribb, de Szeged környékén sem ritka.

Sources 1

  • Családnevek enciklopédiája

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Csányi 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.

Where Csányi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1411 in 2.4M145Csanyi76
BE Belgium151 in 781K15Csanyi3
CZ Czechia101 in 1.1M10——
CH Switzerland71 in 1.2M7Csanyi3
ES Spain71 in 7.1M7—1

141 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 — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Csányi is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Romania

    Also written Csanyi

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Csanyi

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Portugal

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Csanyi, Csànyi

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Canada

    Also written Csanyi

  • Croatian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Also written Csanyi

  • Czech surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia

    Also written Csanyi

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Csanyi

9 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000László Csány, b. 1790Mátyás Csányi, b. 1884Zoltán Csányi, b. 1912György Csányi, b. 1922Sándor Csányi, b. 1953János Csányi, b. 1966Sándor Csányi, b. 1975Michael Csányi-Wills, b. 1975Karol Csanyi, b. 1993

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 8 sources across 5 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Csányi mean?
Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi vagy apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: A helynév alapjául szolgáló Csány személynevünk vitatott eredetű. Egyesek szláv átvételnek tartják a cseh Čanibor keresztnévből.
In which country does Csányi have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 141 people named Csányi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled csanyi.
Where is Csányi most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Csányi is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 781 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Csányi?
In the United States, the national register counted 141 people named Csányi in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.

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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, “Csányi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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