Kecskés

surname · Latin script

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

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

Kecskés is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary≈1 in 9.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SKSlovakia≈1 in 117K
  • CZCzechia1 in 446K

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)

≈1,100 people, est.

Sources
57 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 9.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Hungary, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Kecskes in CZ Czechia.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Hungarian

Típusa: Foglalkozásra utaló, magyar családnév. Eredete: Alapszava, az ótörök eredetű kecske állatnevünk fölvette a ’valamivel ellátott’ vagy ’valamivel foglalkozó’ jelentésű -s képzőt, így foglalkozási családnévvé vált. Olyan helyeken, ahol kevesebben tartottak kecskét, ’kecsketartó’, ahol pedig kecskenyájak voltak, ott ’kecskepásztor’ jelentése lett a családnévnek. Elterjedtsége: A nyelvterület északi, északkeleti részén: Nógrád és Borsod megyében gyakoribb.

Sources 1

  • Családnevek enciklopédiája

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kecskés 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 Kecskés is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HU Hungary#546≈1,100 est.≈1 in 9.2K—Kecskés57
US United States—2271 in 1.5M242—2
SK Slovakia—≈46 est.≈1 in 117K—Kecskés17
CZ Czechia—241 in 446K24Kecskes10
ES Spain—191 in 2.6M19—1
CH Switzerland—91 in 934K9—3

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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Spanish

    Also written Kecskes

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium

    Also written Kecskes, Kecskès

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Also written Kecskes

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kecskes

  • Romanian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania

    Also written Kecskes, Kecskeș

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Arab Emirates, Egypt

    Also written Kecskes

9 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)

1850190019502000Pál Kecskés, b. 1895József Kecskés, b. 1910István Kecskés, b. 1947László Kecskés, b. 1953András M. Kecskés, b. 1955Zoltán Kecskés, b. 1974Karina Kecskés, b. 1976Tamás Kecskés, b. 1986Ákos Kecskés, b. 1996Enikő Kecskés, b. 1997

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 Kecskés!Dear Kecskés, (English)
InformalTisztelt Kecskés!Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Kecskés
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—24#47,905
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20249#65,843

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

How do you pronounce Kecskés?
A machine transcription gives /kɛtʃkeːʃ/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
In which country does Kecskés have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Kecskés in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kecskés.
How common is the name Kecskés?
In the United States, the national register counted 227 people named Kecskés in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
How common is Kecskés compared with other names?
In Hungary, Kecskés is the 546th most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.

What do you want to know about Kecskés?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kecsk%C3%A9s

The 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, “Kecskés” — the 546th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Kecskés parses inside a full name →