Révay
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Révay is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 198K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 1M
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 198K (inferred from the name graph)
209 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Révay 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 209 | 1 in 1.6M | 235 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 54 | 1 in 198K | 54 | Révay | 9 |
| BR Brazil | 50 | 1 in 4.2M | 50 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 44 | 1 in 1M | 44 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
209 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 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)- Ferenc Révayb. 1489HUHungarian noble (1489-1553)
- Péter Révayb. 1568HUHungarian historian
- Erzsébet Révayb. 1665HUHungarian writer
- Mór János Révayb. 1860HUbook publisher, writer, politician (1860–1926)
- Irén Révayb. 1871HUHungarian memoirist, publicist (1871–1959)
- József Révayb. 1881HUHungarian translator (1881–1970)
- Yuliian Revaib. 1899HUnot in their usual nameUkrainian nation politician, member of Czechoslovak national parliament (1899-1979)
- István Révayb. 1899HUHungarian journalist and politician (1899-1989)
- József Révayb. 1902HUHungarian philosopher and ice hockey player (1902–1945)
- Theresa Révayb. 1965FRFrench translator and writer
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 54 | #27,648 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
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
- In which country does Révay have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 209 people named Révay, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Révay most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Révay is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 198 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Révay?
- In the United States, the national register counted 209 people named Révay in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Révay?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C3%A9vayThe 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, “Révay”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.