Menyhárt
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
/mɛɲɦart/(machine-generated) Hungarian · model-generated
Menyhárt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Előzménye az ófelnémet ’erő’ jelentésű megin és ’merész, bátor’ jelentésű hard közszavaknak az összetételéből alakult Meinhard keresztnév.
- HUHungary≈1 in 5.1Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 630K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
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
- 54 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 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 Menyhart in US United States, RO Romania, CZ Czechia and 2 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)Típusa: Apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Előzménye az ófelnémet ’erő’ jelentésű megin és ’merész, bátor’ jelentésű hard közszavaknak az összetételéből alakult Meinhard keresztnév. Noha nincs védőszentje, csak boldoggá avatott viselője a Martyrologium Romanumban (a Római Katolikus Egyház szenteket és boldogokat fölsoroló könyvében), eléggé elterjedt az Árpádok és Anjouk korában is. Ennek oka, hogy azonosították Melchior nevével, akiről közismert, hogy a hagyomány szerint az Újszövetség három mágusa (királya) közül volt az egyik (a középső). Így apanévi családnévként is meglehetősen gyakorivá vált. A magyarban kialakult magánhangzó-harmóniás (Menyhért) alakja is, továbbá az -in- > ny változás, végül az -r- utáni -t zöngésülése (-d) sok írásváltozatot eredményezett. Elterjedtsége: A Hajdúságban, Csongrád megyében és a Balaton környékén gyakoribb.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Menyhárt 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 | #478 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Menyhárt | 54 |
| US United States | — | 123 | 1 in 2.7M | 123 | Menyhart | 44 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 781K | — | Menyhart | 18 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 17 | 1 in 630K | 17 | Menyhart | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | 12 | 1 in 4.2M | 12 | Menyhart | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | Menyhart | 4 |
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; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- László Menyhárthb. 1849HUnot in their usual nameHungarian missionary and botanist (1849–1897)
- Gáspár Menyhárthb. 1868HUnot in their usual namejurist (1868–1940)
- József Menyhártb. 1901HUHungarian painter (1901–1976)
- János Menyhártb. 1952HUHungarian musician, composer and lyricist
- Kálmán Menyhártb. 1955HUHungarian footballer (born 1955)
- Jenő Menyhártb. 1959HUHungarian underground songwriter, lyricist, guitarist and singer
- Tibor Menyhártb. 1967chess player
- Krisztina Menyhártb. 1973HUHungarian linguist (born: 1973)
- József Menyhártb. 1976SKSlovak linguist
- Attila Menyhártb. 1984HUfootball player
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 6 | #105,482 |
Reference works 2
- 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 Menyhárt?
- It depends on the language: in Hungarian /mɛɲɦart/; in Slovak /menihart/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Menyhárt mean?
- Recorded meaning: Típusa: Apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Előzménye az ófelnémet ’erő’ jelentésű megin és ’merész, bátor’ jelentésű hard közszavaknak az összetételéből alakult Meinhard keresztnév.
- In which country does Menyhárt have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Menyhárt in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled menyhárt.
- How common is the name Menyhárt?
- In the United States, the national register counted 123 people named Menyhárt in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
- How common is Menyhárt compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Menyhárt is the 478th most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/menyh%C3%A1rtThe 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, “Menyhárt” — the 478th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.