Méhes

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries

Méhes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Foglalkozásra utaló vagy helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév.

  • HRCroatia1 in 157K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1M
  • PLPoland1 in 3.8M

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)

≈270 people, est.

Record sources
40 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)

Hungary, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mehes in US United States, CZ Czechia, RO Romania.

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)

Típusa: Foglalkozásra utaló vagy helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Alapszava, a méh ősi finnugor rovarnevünk, a ’valamivel ellátott, valamivel foglalkozó’ jelentésű -s képzővel kiegészülve méhes foglalkozásnévvé (és épületnévvé is) vált. Mint minden mesterségnévből, sok ragadványnév és családnév is lett belőle. (Későbbi -ász/-ész foglalkozásnév-képzővel alakult méhész szavunk kiszorította a méhes foglalkozásnevet, illetőleg ma inkább csak épület neveként használják.) Az erdei méhek gyakoriságáról vagy a méhekkel való foglalkozásról, esetleg a méhek tartására szolgáló épületről kapta nevét több település Békés, Bihar, Borsod, Kolozs, Somogy, Temes és Tolna vármegyében. Ezek önmagukban is eredetre, származási helyre utaló családnevekké válhattak, vagy lekophatott róluk az ’onnan/oda való’ jelentésű -i képző, s így váltak családnévvé. Elterjedtsége: A Dunán túl és Erdélyben gyakoribb.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Családnevek enciklopédiája

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Méhes 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 Méhes is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HU Hungary≈270 est.≈1 in 36K—Méhes40
RO Romania≈170 est.≈1 in 127K—Mehes6
SK Slovakia≈46 est.≈1 in 117K—Méhes13
US United States≈42 est.≈1 in 8MlistedMehes12
HR Croatia271 in 157K27——
CZ Czechia111 in 973K11Mehes11

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: MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)

Méhes is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Mehes

  • Romanian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania

    Also written Mehes, Meheș

  • Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Romania

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Mehes

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Meheš, Mehes, Meheș

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Canada

    Also written Mehes

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Mehes

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Mehes

5 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)
1700180019002000György Méhes, b. 1746Sámuel Méhes, b. 1785Gyula Méhes, b. 1897Kálmán Méhes, b. 1911György Méhes, b. 1916Lajos Méhes, b. 1927Károly Méhes, b. 1936Marietta Méhes, b. 1958László Méhes, b. 1961Károly Méhes, b. 1965

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)

4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Méhes
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—4#128,499

Reference works 1

  • 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 Méhes mean?
Recorded meaning: Típusa: Foglalkozásra utaló vagy helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév.
In which country does Méhes have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 270 people named Méhes in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled méhes.
How common is the name Méhes?
In Croatia, the national register counted 27 people named Méhes in 2021, about 1 in 157 thousand residents.

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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, “Méhes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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