Dévai

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

/devɑi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Dévai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi vagy apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary≈1 in 44K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BRBrazil1 in 886K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

239 people

Record sources
28 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)

Hungary, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Típusa: Helynévi vagy apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Alapszava az ótörök eredetű, valamilyen ’méltóság, tisztség’ jelentésű Qewü [dzsë ü] szó, melyből a magyarba bekerülve személynév is lett. Itt sok hang- és jelentéstani változáson ment keresztül, de végül belőle alakult a Déva személynév, amely az Árpádok korában többször előfordult. Magyar névadással (minden végződés vagy összetétel nélkül) helységnév lett belőle Heves (ma Békés) és Hunyad vármegyében. Ezekhez ’onnan/oda való’ jelentésű -i képző járulván eredetre, származási helyre utaló családnévvé váltak. Ugyanakkor egyénnévből közvetlenül is kialakulhatott -i birtokjel hozzátoldásával a családnév, akkor jelentése ’Déva nevű személy fia, leszármazotta’. Elterjedtsége: Általánosan elterjedt, de a Tiszán túl valamivel gyakoribb.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Családnevek enciklopédiája

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Dévai 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 Dévai is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil2391 in 886K239——
HU Hungary≈220 est.≈1 in 44K—Dévai28
ES Spain101 in 5M10—5
CH Switzerland81 in 1.1M8—2
IN India51 in 265M5—4
CZ Czechia11 in 11M1——

239 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

Dévai is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Germany, Malaysia

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Devai

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Devai

  • Portuguese given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil

    Also written Devai, Devaí

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Devai

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Devai

4 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)
1400160018002000Matthias Dévay, b. 1500Hédi Dévai, b. 1921János Dévai, b. 1940Kamilla Dévai Nagy, b. 1950Balázs Dévai, b. 1972Boglárka Dévai, b. 1999

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)
FormalTisztelt Dévai!Dear Dévai, (English)
InformalTisztelt Dévai!Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Dévai
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20248#72,019
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—1#251,141

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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Dévai?
A machine transcription gives /devɑi/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
What does the name Dévai mean?
Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi vagy apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév.
In which country does Dévai have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 239 people named Dévai, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Dévai?
In Brazil, the national register counted 239 people named Dévai, about 1 in 886 thousand 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, “Dévai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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