Karácsony
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Christmas; the feast day celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kɒraːt͡ʃoɲ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Karácsony is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.
- HUHungary≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 560K
- RORomania≈1 in 764K
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
- 50 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈510 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Christmas; the feast day celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Karácsony 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.
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)- Benő Karácsonyb. 1888HUHungarian writer (1888–1944)
- Sándor Karácsonyb. 1891HUphilosopher (1891-1952)
- Sándor Karácsonyb. 1892HU(1892-1945) trade unionist, journalist, lathe operator
- János Karácsonyb. 1951HUHungarian musician (born: 1951)
- Tamás Karácsonyb. 1956HUHungarian architect
- András Karácsonyb. 1957HUHungarian political scientist
- Kinga Karácsonyb. 1969HUbadminton player
- Attila Karácsonyb. 1970chess player
- Gergely Karácsonyb. 1975HUHungarian politician, mayor of Budapest since 2019
- János Ádám KarácsonyHUHungarian politician
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #199,912 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #157,595 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #345,287 |
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 Karácsony mean, and where does it come from?
- Christmas; the feast day celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Karácsony?
- A machine transcription gives /kɒraːt͡ʃoɲ/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- In which country does Karácsony have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 514 people named Karácsony in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karácsony.
- How common is the name Karácsony?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 15 people named Karácsony in 2024, about 1 in 560 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kar%C3%A1csonyThe 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, “Karácsony”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.