Pintér
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname originating as an occupation for a cooper
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pinteːr/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pintér is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 97th most common surname.
- HUHungary≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 4.2K
- HRCroatia1 in 13K
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.
- Hungary (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pinter in US United States.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a surname originating as an occupation for a cooper.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pintér 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 | #97 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 21K | Pintér | 71 |
| US United States | — | 3,669 | 1 in 91K | 3.7K | PinTer | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | 848 | 1 in 250K | 848 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 502 | 1 in 4.2K | 502 | — | 3 |
| HR Croatia | — | 328 | 1 in 13K | 328 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 117 | 1 in 72K | 117 | Pintér | 2 |
| SK Slovakia | #343 | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Pintér | 29 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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)
- József Pintérb. 1913HUHungarian journalist (1913-1974)
- Sándor Pintérb. 1948HUHungarian politician
- Sándor Pintérb. 1950HUHungarian footballer
- László Pintérb. 1950HUHungarian politician
- József Pintérb. 1953HUchess player
- Gábor Pintérb. 1964HUHungarian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church (born 1964)
- Attila Pintérb. 1966HUassociation football player (b. 1966)
- Ákos Pintérb. 1967HU(1967–) Hungarian mathematician
- Ádám Pintérb. 1988HUassociation football player
- Norbert Pintérb. 1992RSHungarian association football 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)
Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Pintér mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as an occupation for a cooper. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pintér?
- A machine transcription gives /pinteːr/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- In which country does Pintér have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Pintér in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pintér.
- How common is the name Pintér?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,669 people named Pintér in 2010, about 1 in 91 thousand residents.
- How common is Pintér compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Pintér is the 97th most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pint%C3%A9rThe 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, “Pintér” — the 97th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.