Gönczi
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ɡønszi/(machine-generated) Hungarian · model-generated
Gönczi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Apanévi vagy helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév.
- HUHungary≈1 in 6.9Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M
- USUnited States≈1 in 3.3Mfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
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 Gonczi in US United States, AU Australia, AR Argentina.
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.
How to pronounce Gönczi
- Hungarian:/ɡønszi/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Típusa: Apanévi vagy helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Előzménye, az ófelnémet kuoni ’merész’ és –r t ’tanács(adó)’ összetételéből keletkezett Konrád több változatban bekerült a magyar névkincsbe, és nagyon népszerűvé vált az Árpádok korában. Egyik változatának (Kunc ~ Künc) névkezdő mássalhangzója zöngésült (K- > G-), a tő magánhangzója pedig nyíltabbá vált (-ü > -ö). Az így létrejött Gönc személynév megkaphatta az -i birtokjelet, s családnévvé lett, jelentése ’Gönczé, Göncz nevű személy fia, leszármazotta’. Ugyanakkor a Gönc személynév magyar névadással (minden végződés vagy összetétel nélkül) helységnévvé alakult Abaúj és Zemplén vármegyében. Ezek pedig az ’onnan/oda való’ jelentésű -i képzővel válhattak eredetre, származási helyre utaló családnévvé. Köncze faluról nem maradtak följegyzések, valószínűleg ez (többszörös) birtokjellel a Könc személynévből alakult családnévvé. Elterjedtsége: A nyelvterület északkeleti részén: Borsod, Abaúj, Szabolcs megyében gyakoribb.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gönczi is found
(measured from records)Gönczi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Gönczi | 39 |
| RO Romania | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Gönczi | 7 |
| US United States | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | listed | Gonczi | 69 |
| AU Australia | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Gonczi | 18 |
| DE Germany | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | — | Gönczi | 17 |
| SE Sweden | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 475K | — | Gönczi | 5 |
| AR Argentina | 10 | 1 in 4.5M | 10 | Gonczi | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | 2 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Ferenc Gönczib. 1861HUHungarian ethnographer (1861-1948)
- Béla Gönczib. 1934HUHungarian graphic artist (b 1934)
- Katalin Gönczib. 1967DEscientist
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Gönczi?
- In Hungarian /ɡønszi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Gönczi mean?
- Recorded meaning: Típusa: Apanévi vagy helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gönczi?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Gönczi in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gönczi. After it come Romania, United States, Australia and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Gönczi?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 10 people named Gönczi, about 1 in 4.5 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%B6ncziThe 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, “Gönczi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.