Fehér

surname · Latin script

Meaning: white

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

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

Fehér is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 98th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SISlovenia1 in 12K
  • HRCroatia1 in 30K

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.

Hungary (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,100 people, est.

Sources
75 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Hungary, est.

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 Feher in US United States, CZ Czechia.

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)

white

Sources 1

  • Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Fehér 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 Fehér is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HU Hungary#98≈4,100 est.≈1 in 2.4K25KFehér75
US United States—1,5641 in 213K1.6KFeher12
SI Slovenia—1701 in 12K170—3
BR Brazil—1591 in 1.3M159——
HR Croatia—1391 in 30K139——
CZ Czechia—1391 in 77K139Feher19
SK Slovakia#481≈74 est.≈1 in 73K—Fehér27

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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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)

Fehér is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Feher, Fehèr, Féhér

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Féhér, Féher, Feher, Fehèr

  • Croatian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, Romania, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian

    Also written Feher, Féher

  • Portuguese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Portugal, Serbia

    Also written Feher

  • Hungarian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hungarian, Spanish, Chinese

    Also written Feher

  • Danish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark, United States, Iceland

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Feher

19 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)

19001920194019601980Ilona Fehér, b. 1901Tibor Fehér, b. 1907Lajos Fehér, b. 1917Klára Fehér, b. 1919Ferenc Fehér, b. 1933György Fehér, b. 1939András Fehér, b. 1947Anna Fehér, b. 1958Csaba Fehér, b. 1975Miklós Fehér, 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)

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

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Fehér
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025)201126K#23
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025)201226K#23
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025)201326K#23
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025)201426K#23
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025)201526K#23
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025)201626K#23
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025)201726K#23
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025)201826K#23
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025)201926K#23
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025)202026K#23
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025)202125K#23
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025)202225K#23

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 Fehér mean, and where does it come from?
white Recorded by Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian.
How do you pronounce Fehér?
A machine transcription gives /fɛɦeːr/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
In which country does Fehér have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Fehér in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fehér.
How common is the name Fehér?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,564 people named Fehér in 2010, about 1 in 213 thousand residents.
How common is Fehér compared with other names?
In Hungary, Fehér is the 98th most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Fehér” — the 98th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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