Jámbor
surname · Latin script
Meaning: pious, devout, godly, god-fearing
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/jaːmbor/(machine-generated) Hungarian · model-generated
Jámbor is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- SKSlovakia1 in 11K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 22K
- HRCroatia1 in 41K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
827 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jambor in US United States, CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia and 1 more.
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)pious, devout, godly, god-fearing
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jámbor 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.
827 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)- Pál Jámborb. 1821HUwriter, politician (1821-1897)
- Jenő Jámborb. 1853HUHungarian composer (1853–1914)
- Lajos Jámborb. 1860HUHungarian poet
- Lajos Jámborb. 1869HUHungarian architect (1869-1955)
- Lajos Jámborb. 1884USHungarian-born painter, illustrator and muralist active in the United States
- Agi Jamborb. 1909HUHungarian born American classical pianist (1909--1997)
- László Jámborb. 1911HUHungarian opera singer
- Béla Jámborb. 1917HUHungarian biochemist
- Áron Jámborb. 1933HUHungarian geologist (1933–2023)
- Katalin JámborHUHungarian Righteous Among the Nations
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 128 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 15 | #63,048 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #266,317 |
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 Jámbor mean, and where does it come from?
- pious, devout, godly, god-fearing Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Jámbor?
- In Hungarian /jaːmbor/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Jámbor have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 827 people named Jámbor, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jambor.
- Where is Jámbor most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jámbor is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jámbor?
- In Poland, the national register counted 827 people named Jámbor in 2026, about 1 in 46 thousand residents.
- How common is Jámbor compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Jámbor is the 617th most common surname of 69,668 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jámbor?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%A1mborThe 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, “Jámbor” — the 617th most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.