Eperjesi
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ipɝdʒsi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Eperjesi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Alapszava az ősi ugor eredetű eper szavunk.
- HUHungary≈1 in 33K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 2.1M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
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 33K (inferred from the name graph)
≈300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Típusa: Helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Alapszava az ősi ugor eredetű eper szavunk. Ennek eredeti alakja *epere lehetett, amiből kétnyíltszótagos tendencia szerint a második nyílt szótag magánhangzója kiesett, s így jött létre az epere ~ eperje szóalak. Ez a közbülső forma is, meg a későbbi eper ~ epre alak is megkapta a ’valamivel ellátott’, ’valamiben bővelkedő’ jelentésű -s képzőt, s így vált Eperjes ~ Epres helységnévvé Arad, Gömör, Kolozs, Nógrád, Sáros, Szabolcs, Veszprém, Zaránd vármegyében. Bármelyikhez hozzákapcsolódhatott az ’onnan/oda való’ jelentésű -i képző, s így eredetre, származási helyre utaló családnév lett belőle. Elterjedtsége: Az északi, északkeleti nyelvterületen, Heves, Borsod, Abaúj megyében való gyakoribb előfordulása arra utal, hogy a Gömör vármegyei Eperjes városból (ma Prešov) való származás volt névadási motivációja a legtöbb ide tartozó családnévnek.
Sources 1
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eperjesi 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 | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Eperjesi | 1 |
| US United States | 123 | 1 in 2.7M | 123 | Eperjesi | 86 |
| DE Germany | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | — | Eperjesi | 18 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 4.4M | — | Eperjesi | 37 |
| CA Canada | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Eperjesi | 12 |
| CZ Czechia | 5 | 1 in 2.1M | 5 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Eperjesi | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
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; MVČR — living population register 2017; 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)
- János Eperjesib. 1490HUHungarian mathematician and astrologer (15th-16th century)
- László Eperjesib. 1943HUchess player
- János Eperjesi Penckóferb. 1959UATranscarpathian Hungarian writer and literary historian
- Ágnes Eperjesib. 1964HUHungarian photographer
- Erika Eperjesib. 1973HUHungarian opera singer, actress
- Gábor Eperjesib. 1994HUHungarian association footballer
- Frank EperjesiGBresearcher
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 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 123 | #136,449 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 102 | #148,244 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Eperjesi?
- A machine transcription gives /ipɝdʒsi/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Eperjesi mean?
- Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Alapszava az ősi ugor eredetű eper szavunk.
- In which country does Eperjesi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 300 people named Eperjesi in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eperjesi.
- How common is the name Eperjesi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 123 people named Eperjesi in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eperjesiThe 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, “Eperjesi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.