Hegedüs
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hɛɡɛdyʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hegedüs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 27th most common surname. Recorded meaning: occupational name for a player on the fiddle, Hungarian hegedii, of unexplained origin.
- HUHungary≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 195K
- HRCroatia1 in 14K
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)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hegedus in HU Hungary, US United States, 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)
occupational name for a player on the fiddle, Hungarian hegedii, of unexplained origin.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hegedüs 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 | #27 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 14K | Hegedus | 133 |
| US United States | — | 1,704 | 1 in 195K | 1.7K | Hegedus | 124 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Hegedus | 22 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 204K | — | Hegedus | 51 |
| HR Croatia | — | 311 | 1 in 14K | 311 | — | — |
| SK Slovakia | #99 | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Hegedüs | 41 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 89 | 1 in 94K | 89 | Hegedüs | 10 |
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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Lajos Hegedüsb. 1831HUHungarian legal scholar (1831-1883)
- Sándor Hegedüsb. 1847HUHungarian politician (1847-1906)
- Lóránt Hegedüsb. 1872HUHungarian politician (1872–1943)
- Géza Hegedüsb. 1912HUwriter (1912–1999)
- András Hegedüsb. 1922HUHungarian politician (1922-1999)
- Zsuzsa Hegedüsb. 1946HUHungarian sociologist (1946–2022)
- Agnes Hegedüsb. 1964HUHungarian visual artist (born 1964)
- Lajos Hegedűsb. 1987HUHungarian footballer
- Zsuzsanna HegedüsHUHungarian Righteous Among the Nations
- Zoltán HegedüsHUHungarian Righteous Among the Nations
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)
Attested in 13 sources across 9 countries.
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 Hegedüs mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name for a player on the fiddle, Hungarian hegedii, of unexplained origin. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hegedüs?
- A machine transcription gives /hɛɡɛdyʃ/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- In which country does Hegedüs have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Hegedüs in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hegedus.
- How common is the name Hegedüs?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,704 people named Hegedüs in 2010, about 1 in 195 thousand residents.
- How common is Hegedüs compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Hegedüs is the 27th most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/heged%C3%BCsThe 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, “Hegedüs” — the 27th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.