Bajnok
surname · Latin script
Meaning: champion (an ongoing winner in a game or contest) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/ˈbɒjnok/(recorded in a dictionary) Hungarian · from Wiktionary
Bajnok is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.
- HUHungary≈1 in 12Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 510K
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 71Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Hungary (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈790 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Bajnok
- Hungarian:/ˈbɒjnok/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Slovak:/bajnok/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)champion (an ongoing winner in a game or contest)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Bajnok is found
(measured from records)Bajnok 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 | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Bajnok | 56 |
| SK Slovakia | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Bajnok | 16 |
| CZ Czechia | 21 | 1 in 510K | 21 | — | 3 |
| US United States | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 17M | listed | Bajnok | 7 |
| RO Romania | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Bajnok | 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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)- Béla Bajnokb. 1937HUHungarian sculptor (1937–2020)
- István Bajnokb. 1941SKpolitician and physician (1941-2013)
- Zoltán Bajnokb. 1967HUHungarian theoretical physicist
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bajnok mean, and where does it come from?
- champion (an ongoing winner in a game or contest) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bajnok?
- It depends on the language: in Hungarian /ˈbɒjnok/ (Wiktionary); in Slovak /bajnok/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bajnok?
- Mondonomo estimates about 787 people named Bajnok in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bajnok. After it come Slovakia, Czechia, United States and Romania; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Bajnok?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 21 people named Bajnok, about 1 in 510 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bajnokThe 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, “Bajnok”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.