Jenő
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, comparable to Eugene
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jɛnøː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jenő is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.
- HUHungary1 in 787(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 66K
- USUnited States1 in 164Kas Jene
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jenő itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Hungary (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- 1 in 787 (inferred from the name graph)
12,414 people, 2025
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jeno in HU Hungary, US United States, PH Philippines and 2 more, Jene in RS Serbia and Jenö in SE Sweden.
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)
a male given name, comparable to Eugene
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jenő 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 | #141 | 12,414 | 1 in 787 | 12K | JenO | 86 |
| US United States | — | 2,030as Jene | 1 in 164K | 1.4K | JenO | 129 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | JenO | 24 |
| BR Brazil | — | 475as Jene | 1 in 446K | 475 | JenO | 16 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | JenO | 22 |
| SE Sweden | — | 70 | 1 in 146K | 70 | Jenö | 4 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Jene | 12 |
12,414 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025, counting the spelling jenő. 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 given names in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
- Jenö Hubayb. 1858HUHungarian musician (1858–1937)
- Jenő Janovicsb. 1872HUHungarian film director (1872–1945)
- Eugen Vargab. 1879HUnot in their usual nameHungarian economist (1879-1964)
- Jenő Fuchsb. 1882HUHungarian fencer (1882–1955)
- S. Z. Sakallb. 1883HUnot in their usual nameHungarian actor (1883–1955)
- Eugene Wignerb. 1902HUnot in their usual nameHungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902–1995)
- Jenő Rejtőb. 1905HUHungarian writer (1905–1943)
- Jenő Fockb. 1916HUHungarian politician (1916–2001)
- Jenő Buzánszkyb. 1925HUHungarian footballer (1925-2015)
- Jenő Jandób. 1952HUHungarian classical pianist
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- How do you pronounce Jenő?
- A machine transcription gives /jɛnøː/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- What does the name Jenő mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, comparable to Eugene Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Jenő?
- In the etymology graph, Jenci is a recorded short or pet form.
- Is Jenő a male or female name?
- Jenő is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Jenő have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Jenő, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled JenO.
- Where is Jenő most common?
- Jenő is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 787 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jenő?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 12,414 people named Jenő in 2025, about 1 in 787 residents.
- How common is Jenő compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Jenő is the 141st most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jenő?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jen%C5%91The 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, “Jenő” — the 141st most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.