Várnai
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: BFS, 2024
Várnai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8M (inferred from the name graph)
3 people, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Varnai in US United States, DE Germany, CA Canada and 2 more.
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)Típusa: Helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Az ószláv ’holló’ jelentésű *vrn (birtokos esetben *vrna) szó sok esetben víznévvé és helynévvé vált a különböző szláv nyelvekben ott, ahol a holló megtelepedett. Ezt vette át a magyar nyelv, és -a- ~ -á- bontóhanggal föloldotta benne a név eleji mássalhangzó-torlódást. Varna, Várna, Varana ~ Varanó településnevünk volt Trencsén és Zemplén vármegyében. Ezek bármelyikéhez járulhatott az ’onnan/oda való’ jelentésű -i képző, és eredetre, származási helyre utaló családnév lett belőle. Elterjedtsége: A Dunán túl gyakoribb.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Várnai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Varnai | 46 |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | Varnai | 30 |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Varnai | 15 |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | — | Varnai | 2 |
| HU Hungary | — | — | — | Varnai | 1 |
3 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)- Jenő Várnaib. 1872HUactor
- Dániel Várnaib. 1881HUHungarian writer, journalist, translator, politician (1881-1962)
- László Várnaib. 1885HUHungarian actor
- Zseni Várnaib. 1890HUHungarian poet and autobiographer (1890–1981)
- György Várnaib. 1921HU(1921-1991) caricaturist, animator
- Péter Várnaib. 1922HU(1922-1992) conductor, music historian, music critic
- Lajos Várnaib. 1924HUfootball player (1924-2009)
- Ferenc Várnaib. 1928Hungarian political scientist (1928–2007)
- László Várnaib. 1951HUHungarian politician (1951-2015)
- Anikó Várnaib. 2000HUresearcher
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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Várnai mean?
- Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév.
- In which country does Várnai have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 3 people named Várnai, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Várnai most common?
- Várnai is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.8 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Várnai?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 3 people named Várnai in 2024, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/v%C3%A1rnaiThe 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, “Várnai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.