Mező

surname · Latin script

Meaning: field, meadow

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

Mező is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 192K
  • USUnited States1 in 488K

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.

United States (measured from records)

682 people, 2010

Sources
61 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)

Hungary, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mezo in HU Hungary, US United States, 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)

field, meadow

Sources 1

  • Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mező 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 Mező is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—6821 in 488K708Mezo43
HU Hungary#552≈510 est.≈1 in 19K—Mezo61
ES Spain—2611 in 192K261——
CH Switzerland—101 in 840K10——
RO Romania—≈9 est.≈1 in 2.3M—Mezo7

682 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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)

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

  • Slovak surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Mezo, Mezö, Mëžö

  • English surname14 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Mezo, Mezoe, Mezö, Mezõ, Mèzo

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Mezö, Mézo, Mezo

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, United States, Spain, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Mezo, Mĕźő, Mezö, Mézo

  • Croatian surname16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Croatia

    Also written Mezo, Mezzo, Mezö, Мезо, Mêžŏ

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written Mezo

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Mező is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Hungarian, field (land area free of woodland, cities and towns; open country)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000István Mező, b. 1880Béla Mező, b. 1883Ferenc Mező, b. 1885Imre Mező, b. 1905Álmos Mező, b. 1919Imre Mezö, b. 1932András Mező, b. 1939István Mező, b. 1951Zoltán Mező, b. 1984
  • István Mezőb. 1880Czechoslovak senator of Czechoslovak National Parliament and Hungary nation politician
  • Béla Mezőb. 1883HUHungarian sprinter and long jumper
  • Ferenc Mezőb. 1885HUHungarian sport historian (1885-1961)
  • Imre Mezőb. 1905HUHungarian trade union leader, politician (1905–1956)
  • Álmos Mezőb. 1919FRFrench-Hungarian movie producer (1919-2007)
  • Imre Mezöb. 1932Hungarian composer, musicologist and music editor (1932–)
  • András Mezőb. 1939HUHungarian linguist and historian (1939–2003)
  • István Mezőb. 1951HUHungarian politician
  • Zoltán Mezőb. 1984HUHungarian musical theatre actor
  • Anna MezőHUHungarian Righteous Among the Nations

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)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

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 Mező mean, and where does it come from?
field, meadow Recorded by Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian.
In which country does Mező have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 682 people named Mező, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mezo.
How common is the name Mező?
In the United States, the national register counted 682 people named Mező in 2010, about 1 in 488 thousand residents.
How common is Mező compared with other names?
In Hungary, Mező is the 552nd most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Mező” — the 552nd most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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