Szél

surname · Latin script

Meaning: wind

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

Szél is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
  • BEBelgium1 in 2.9M

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.

Poland (measured from records)

29 people, 2026

Sources
31 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.3M (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Szel in BE Belgium.

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)

wind

Sources 1

  • Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Szél 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 Szél is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland291 in 1.3M15—1
ES Spain81 in 6.3M8—1
BE Belgium41 in 2.9M4Szel3
DK Denmark41 in 1.5M4——
CR Costa Rica11 in 5.1M1——

29 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)

Szél is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania

    Also written Szel

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Also written Szel

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Szel

  • Hungarian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Romania, Poland, United States

    Languages: Hungarian, Polish

    Also written Szel

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Szel

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Szel

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Szel

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Szel

4 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)

Szél is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Hungarian, border, edge

    as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian

  • In Hungarian, wide, broad

    as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian

  • In Hungarian, Típusa: Helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Ősi ugor kori szél szavunk jelentése ’valaminek a vége, határa’. Családnévül valamely település végén, határán, szélén lakók kapták meg. Elterjedtsége: A Dunántúl délkeleti részén és a Dunától keletre, Szeged környékén gyakoribb.

    as a nameCsaládnevek enciklopédiája

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)

18001850190019502000Kálmán Szél, b. 1838Tivadar Szél, b. 1893László Szél, b. 1902Júlia Szél, b. 1927Ágoston Szél, b. 1955Péter Szél, b. 1955Pál Szél, b. 1956Győző Szél, b. 1958Katalin Dombi, b. 1969Bernadett Szél, b. 1977

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 Szél mean, and where does it come from?
wind Recorded by Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian.
In which country does Szél have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 29 people named Szél, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Szél most common?
Szél is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Szél?
In Poland, the national register counted 29 people named Szél in 2026, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sz%C3%A9l

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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, “Szél”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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