Kmeť
org · Latin script
Meaning: old man
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: JÚĽŠ SAV, 1995
Kmeť is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovakia than in any other country.
- SKSlovakia1 in 2.8K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 8.9K
- HRCroatia1 in 18K
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 Kmeť 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.
- Slovakia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
1,969 people, 1995
recorded for this name
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)Locally spelled Кметь in UA Ukraine, RU Russia and Kmet in US United States, CZ Czechia.
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)old man
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kmeť is found
(measured from records)Kmeť 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.
1,969 people counted by JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census), 1995. 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: JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); 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)- Andrej Kmeťb. 1841SKSlovak archeologist, botanist, ethnographist, geologist, historian and roman catholic priest (1841-1908)
- Jan Kmećb. 1927RSnot in their usual nameSlovak-Serbian literary scholar (1927–2003)
- Jaroslav Kmeťb. 1957SKSlovak botanist
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kmeť mean, and where does it come from?
- old man Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kmeť?
- In Slovakia, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Kmeť, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kmeť. After it come Ukraine, Russia, United States and Croatia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kmeť most common?
- Kmeť is densest in Slovakia, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kmeť?
- In Slovakia, the national register counted 1,969 people named Kmeť in 1995, about 1 in 2.8 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/kme%C5%A5The 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, “Kmeť”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.