Szakács
surname · Latin script
Meaning: cook, chef (a person who prepares food for a living)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/sɒkaːt͡ʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Szakács is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.
- HUHungary≈1 in 9.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- RORomania≈1 in 104K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 247K
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
- 54 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 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:
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)cook, chef (a person who prepares food for a living)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Szakács 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 | #532 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | — | Szakács | 54 |
| US United States | — | 448 | 1 in 742K | 448 | — | 2 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Szakács | 17 |
| ES Spain | — | 94 | 1 in 532K | 94 | — | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 34 | 1 in 247K | 34 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 32 | 1 in 319K | 32 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 16 | 1 in 367K | 16 | — | — |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)- Rózsi Szakácsb. 1892HUHungarian actress
- Sándor Szakácsb. 1917HUHungarian actor (1917–1965)
- Ferenc Szakácsb. 1933HUpsychologist
- Eszter Szakácsb. 1942HUHungarian actress (1942-2014)
- Imre Szakácsb. 1948HUHungarian painter
- Györgyi Szakácsb. 1951HUHungarian costume designer
- Imre Szakácsb. 1957HUHungarian politician
- Éva Szakácsb. 1961HUHungarian biologist (born: 1961)
- Eszter Szakácsb. 1964HUHungarian poet
- Béla Zsolt Szakácsb. 1968HUHungarian art historian
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 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 34 | #24,910 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Szakács mean, and where does it come from?
- cook, chef (a person who prepares food for a living) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Szakács?
- A machine transcription gives /sɒkaːt͡ʃ/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- In which country does Szakács have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Szakács in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled szakács.
- How common is the name Szakács?
- In the United States, the national register counted 448 people named Szakács in 2010, about 1 in 742 thousand residents.
- How common is Szakács compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Szakács is the 532nd most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Szakács?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/szak%C3%A1csThe 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, “Szakács” — the 532nd most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.