Faragó
surname · Latin script
Meaning: carver, cutter
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Faragó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.
- HUHungary≈1 in 5.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 22K
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 147K
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
- 66 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
carver, cutter
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Faragó 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 | #202 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | 9.8K | Faragó | 66 |
| BR Brazil | — | 818 | 1 in 259K | 818 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 608 | 1 in 547K | 608 | Faragó | 7 |
| HR Croatia | — | 193 | 1 in 22K | 193 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 61 | 1 in 820K | 61 | — | — |
| SK Slovakia | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Faragó | 18 |
| NO Norway | — | 34 | 1 in 161K | 34 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 23 | 1 in 147K | 23 | — | — |
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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Faragó is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, Típusa: Foglalkozásra utaló, magyar családnév. Eredete: Alapszava ősi uráli gyökerű farag szavunk. Ennek folyamatos melléknévi igenévi alakja főnevesült, akár úgy is, hogy elmaradt mellőle a fa-, kő- stb. előtag (a fafaragó, kőfaragó foglalkozásokból). Így foglalkozásnévi vagy kedvelt tevékenységre utaló családnévvé vált. Elterjedtsége: A nyelvterület keleti felén, különösen Erdélyben gyakori.
as a nameCsaládnevek enciklopédiája
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Géza Faragób. 1877HUHungarian artist (1877-1928)
- Pál Faragób. 1886HUHungarian chess composer (1886–1969)
- Alexander Faragób. 1899HUSwedish actor
- Clara Faragób. 1905HUHungarian chess player
- Ladislas Faragob. 1906HUHungarian military historian and journalist (1906-1980)
- György Faragób. 1913HUHungarian classical pianist
- Lajos Faragób. 1932HUHungarian association football player (1932–2019)
- Katinka Faragób. 1936ATSwedish film producer of Hungarian descent (1936–2024)
- Iván Faragób. 1946HUHungarian chess player (1946–2022)
- Tamás Faragób. 1952HUHungarian water polo player and coach
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 5 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 Faragó mean, and where does it come from?
- carver, cutter Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Faragó have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Faragó in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled faragó.
- How common is the name Faragó?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 818 people named Faragó, about 1 in 259 thousand residents.
- How common is Faragó compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Faragó is the 202nd 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/farag%C3%B3The 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, “Faragó” — the 202nd most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.