Mészáros
surname · Latin script
Meaning: butcher (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: JÚĽŠ SAV, 1995
/ˈmeːsaːroʃ/(recorded in a dictionary) Hungarian · from Wiktionary
Mészáros is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 18th most common surname.
- HUHungary≈1 in 510(inferred from the name graph)
- SKSlovakia1 in 2K
- RORomania≈1 in 27Kfew 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
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 505 (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 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 Meszaros in HU Hungary, US United States, RO Romania 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.
How to pronounce Mészáros
- Hungarian:/ˈmeːsaːroʃ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Slovak:/meːzzaros/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)butcher
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Mészáros is found
(measured from records)Mészáros 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 | #18 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 505 | 37K | Meszaros | 141 |
| SK Slovakia | #66 | 2,731 | 1 in 2K | 2.7K | Mészáros | 61 |
| US United States | — | 1,808 | 1 in 184K | 1.8K | Meszaros | 169 |
| RO Romania | #919 | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Meszaros | 23 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Meszaros | 43 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 204 | 1 in 52K | 204 | Meszaros | 32 |
| NO Norway | — | 92 | 1 in 59K | 92 | — | 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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)- István Mészárosb. 1930HU(1930–2017) Hungarian philosopher
- Márta Mészárosb. 1931HUHungarian screenwriter and film director (born 1931)
- Angelica Bellab. 1968HUnot in their usual nameHungarian pornographic actress (1968–2021)
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mészáros mean, and where does it come from?
- butcher Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mészáros?
- It depends on the language: in Hungarian /ˈmeːsaːroʃ/ (Wiktionary); in Slovak /meːzzaros/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mészáros?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Mészáros in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meszaros. After it come Slovakia, United States, Romania and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Mészáros?
- In Slovakia, the national register counted 2,731 people named Mészáros in 1995, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Mészáros compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Mészáros is the 18th 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/m%C3%A9sz%C3%A1rosThe 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, “Mészáros” — ranked 17th in Hungary (Nyilvántartó). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.