Vezér
surname · Latin script
Meaning: to lead
Vezér is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 12Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.8Mfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 5Mfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8M (inferred from the name graph)
≈28 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, 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 Vezer in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 1 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)to lead
Cited for this meaning 1
- Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Vezér 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 | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Vezer | 36 |
| AU Australia | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Vezer | 9 |
| CA Canada | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 5M | — | Vezer | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 9.5M | 9 | Vezer | 9 |
| DE Germany | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 47M | — | Vezér | 5 |
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: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Vezér is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, leader
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
In Hungarian, leader, chief
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Antal Vezérb. 1922HUassociation football player (1922-1986)
- Károly Vezérb. 1969HUHungarian sailor
- Ádám Vezérb. 1974HUHungarian footballer
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 0 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Vezér mean, and where does it come from?
- to lead Recorded by Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian.
- In which country does Vezér have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 people named Vezér in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vezer.
- How common is the name Vezér?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 people in the United States have Vezér as their first surname, about 1 in 12 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Vezér?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vez%C3%A9rThe 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, “Vezér”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.