Szőke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: blond (UK), blonde (US) (hair color)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Nyilvántartó, 2025
/søːkɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Szőke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 100th most common surname.
- HUHungary≈1 in 5.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- RORomania≈1 in 31K
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 98K
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)
- Record sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 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 Szoke in HU Hungary, US United States, RO Romania and 2 more and Szöke in SK Slovakia.
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)blond (UK), blonde (US) (hair color)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Szőke 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 | #100 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | 13K | Szoke | 91 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Szoke | 27 |
| US United States | — | 510 | 1 in 652K | 785 | Szoke | 97 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 413K | 48 | Szoke | 44 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 276K | — | Szoke | 17 |
| SK Slovakia | #610 | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Szöke | 25 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 186K | — | Szőke | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 14 | 1 in 150K | 14 | — | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)- Katalin Szőkeb. 1935USHungarian swimmer (1935-2017)
- Szőke Istvánb. 1942HUHungarian stage actor and director (1942–2016)
- István Szőkeb. 1947HUHungarian football player (1947–2022)
- Péter Szőkeb. 1947HUHungarian tennis player (1947–2022)
- András Szőkeb. 1962HUHungarian actor
- Nikoletta Szőkeb. 1983HUHungarian singer
- Olivér Szőkeb. 1995HUHungarian actor
- Adrián Szőkeb. 1998RSHungarian association football player
- Abigél Szőkeb. 1998HUHungarian actress
- Alex Szőkeb. 2000HUHungarian amateur wrestler
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 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 Szőke mean, and where does it come from?
- blond (UK), blonde (US) (hair color) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Szőke?
- A machine transcription gives /søːkɛ/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- In which country does Szőke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Szőke in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled szoke.
- How common is the name Szőke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 510 people named Szőke in 2010, about 1 in 652 thousand residents.
- How common is Szőke compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Szőke is the 100th most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Szőke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sz%C5%91keThe 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, “Szőke” — the 100th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.