Kertész
surname · Latin script
Meaning: gardener, horticulturist
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries
/ˈkɛrteːs/(recorded in a dictionary) Hungarian · from Wiktionary
Kertész is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 191K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 217K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 230Kfew records
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.
- Hungary (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 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)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kertesz in US United States, CA Canada, DE Germany and 4 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)gardener, horticulturist
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kertész 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 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Kertesz | 4 |
| US United States | 510 | 1 in 652K | 530 | Kertesz | 173 |
| RO Romania | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Kertesz | 11 |
| DE Germany | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 537K | listed | Kertesz | 46 |
| CA Canada | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 280K | — | Kertesz | 49 |
| CZ Czechia | 56 | 1 in 191K | 56 | — | — |
| BZ Belize | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Kertesz | 1 |
| GY Guyana | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Kertesz | 1 |
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 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)- Michael Curtizb. 1886HUnot in their usual nameHungarian-American director (1886–1962)
- Dezső Kertészb. 1892HUHungarian actor and film director
- André Kertészb. 1894USHungarian photographer (1894–1985)
- Géza Kertészb. 1894HUHungarian football player and manager (1894–1945)
- Imre Kertészb. 1929HUHungarian author (1929–2016)
- István Kertészb. 1929HUHungarian orchestral and operatic conductor (1929–1973)
- Ákos Kertészb. 1932HUHungarian screenwriter, journalist and author
- Alice Kertészb. 1935HUHungarian gymnast (1935–)
- János Kertészb. 1950HUHungarian physicist, Central European University
- András Kertészb. 1956HUHungarian linguist (1956–)
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 56 | #26,917 |
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
- What does the name Kertész mean, and where does it come from?
- gardener, horticulturist Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kertész?
- It depends on the language: in Hungarian /ˈkɛrteːs/ (Wiktionary); in Slovak /kerteːszˌet/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Kertész have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Kertész in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kertesz.
- How common is the name Kertész?
- In the United States, the national register counted 510 people named Kertész in 2010, about 1 in 652 thousand 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/kert%C3%A9szThe 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, “Kertész”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.