Szep
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/sɛp/(machine-generated) Hungarian · model-generated · uncertain
Szep is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 101K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 169K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 410K
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
- 98 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Szep 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 | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Szep | 2 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Szep | 12 |
| US United States | — | 232 | 1 in 1.4M | 236 | Szep | 98 |
| BW Botswana | #452 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Szep | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Szep | 30 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Szep | 25 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 1 | 1 in 101K | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)- Paul Szepb. 1941CACanadian political cartoonist and caricaturist (born 1941)
- Irene Szepb. 1953ATAustrian politician
- Jason Szepb. 1969CAAmerican journalist with Reuters
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 236 | #85,336 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 232 | #81,458 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 199 | #86,992 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Szep?
- In Hungarian /sɛp/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Szep have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Szep in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled szep.
- How common is the name Szep?
- In the United States, the national register counted 232 people named Szep in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Szep compared with other names?
- In Botswana, Szep is the 452nd most common surname of 987 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/szepThe 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, “Szep” — the 452nd most common surname in Botswana. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.