Bakonyi
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɑkoɲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bakonyi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Apanévi vagy helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév.
- HUHungary≈1 in 9.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 494K
- SESweden≈1 in 893K
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
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Típusa: Apanévi vagy helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Alapszava, a német eredetű, ’állat hímje’ jelentésű bak közszavunk metaforikusan, férfiakra jellemző külső- belső hasonlóság alapján személynévvé vált a középkorban. Ehhez járult az -n kicsinyítő képző, amely a név végén sokszor -ny-nyé vált (palatalizálódott). Megkaphatta az -i birtokjelet, s apanévi családnév lett belőle. Jelentése így’Bakonyé, Bakon ~ Bakony nevű személy fia, leszármazotta’. Ugyanakkor a Bakon ~ Bokon ~ Bakony személynevekből magyar névadással (minden végződés vagy összetétel nélkül) településnevek lettek Baranya, Bihar, Fejér, Hunyad és Veszprém vármegyében. Ezekből ’onnan/oda való’ jelentésű -i képzővel eredetre, származási helyre utaló családnév alakulhatott. (Egyik Veszprém megyei település volt a Bakony hegység névadója.) Családnév hegyek nevéből természetes úton nagyon ritkán keletkezhetett, de a névmagyarosításoknak elsősorban a jól ismert hegynév volt a motivációja. A Bákonyi alakban a hangsúly hatására nyúlhatott meg egyes vidékeken az első szótag magánhangzója. Elterjedtsége: A Dunántúl egészén megtalálható, de az északkeleti részén gyakoribb.
Sources 1
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bakonyi 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 | #416 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | — | Bakonyi | 86 |
| US United States | — | 102 | 1 in 3.3M | 102 | Bakonyi | 59 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 923K | — | Bakonyi | 18 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Bakonyi | 21 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 17 | 1 in 494K | 17 | Bakonyi | 8 |
| PL Poland | — | 15 | 1 in 2.6M | 10 | Bakonyi | 9 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 893K | — | Bakonyi | 8 |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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)
- Károly Bakonyib. 1873HUwriter (1873-1926)
- Stefano Bakonyib. 1892Hungarian writer (1892–1969)
- Elek Bakonyib. 1904HUHungarian chess player
- Pál Bakonyib. 1922Hungarian pedagogue (1922–2011)
- Péter Bakonyib. 1938HUHungarian fencer
- István Bakonyib. 1952HUHungarian teacher
- Tibor Bakonyib. 1958HUpolitician
- Csilla Bakonyib. 1979HUHungarian actress
- Marcell Bakonyib. 1980HU(1980-) opera singer
- Gáborné BakonyiHUHungarian 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 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 102 | #154,755 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 102 | #158,432 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 17 | #41,155 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 10 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 10 | #131,547 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #192,492 |
| 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 Bakonyi?
- A machine transcription gives /bɑkoɲi/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- What does the name Bakonyi mean?
- Recorded meaning: Típusa: Apanévi vagy helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév.
- In which country does Bakonyi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Bakonyi in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bakonyi.
- How common is the name Bakonyi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 102 people named Bakonyi in 2010, about 1 in 3.3 million residents.
- How common is Bakonyi compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Bakonyi is the 416th 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/bakonyiThe 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, “Bakonyi” — the 416th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.