Nyéki
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ɲeki/(machine-generated) Hungarian · model-generated
Nyéki is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév.
- HUHungary≈1 in 17Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- CZCzechia1 in 11M
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
- 30 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈580 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 Nyeki in 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.
How to pronounce Nyéki
- Hungarian:/ɲeki/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Slovak:/nieki/(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)Típusa: Helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Alapszavának, ősi ugor kori törzsnevünknek az eredeti jelentése ’kerítés, sövény’ volt, majd mint mindegyik törzsnév, igen gyakori településnévvé vált az Árpádok korában, amikor a törzsek szétszóródtak a Kárpát-medence magyarok által elfoglalt területén. Volt Nyék nevű vagy -nyék utótagú falu Arad, Bács, Bihar, Bodrog, Borsod, Csongrád, Fejér, Hont, Komárom, Közép-Szolnok, Krassó, Nógrád, Pilis, Pozsony, Sopron, Szerém, Tolna, Udvarhely, Vas, Veszprém, Zaránd vármegyében. Bármelyikhez járulhatott ’onnan/oda való’ jelentésű -i képző, s eredetre, származási helyre utaló családnév lett belőle. Elterjedtsége: A Tiszántúl déli felén gyakoribb.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Where the surname Nyéki is found
(measured from records)Nyéki 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 | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Nyéki | 30 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 1 | 1 in 11M | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Nyeki | 5 |
| RO Romania | — | — | — | Nyeki | 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)- János Nyékib. 1841HUHungarian actor
- Lajos Nyékib. 1926HUHungarian literary scholar (1926-2008)
- Imre Nyékib. 1928HUswimmer (1928–1995)
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 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Nyéki?
- It depends on the language: in Hungarian /ɲeki/; in Slovak /nieki/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Nyéki mean?
- Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Nyéki?
- Mondonomo estimates about 578 people named Nyéki in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nyéki. After it come Switzerland and Czechia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Nyéki?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 3 people named Nyéki in 2024, about 1 in 2.8 million 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/ny%C3%A9kiThe 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, “Nyéki”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.