Fekete
surname · Latin script
Meaning: black
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Fekete is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 22nd most common surname.
- HUHungary≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 164K
- RORomania≈1 in 12K
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
- 165 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
black
Sources 1
- Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fekete 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 | #22 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 32K | Fekete | 165 |
| US United States | — | 2,027 | 1 in 164K | 2K | Fekete | 142 |
| RO Romania | #576 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Fekete | 39 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Fekete | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Fekete | 58 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Fekete | 15 |
| HR Croatia | — | 221 | 1 in 19K | 221 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 168 | 1 in 50K | 168 | Fekete | 14 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Fekete 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, black (absorbing all light and reflecting practically none)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Michael Feketeb. 1886ILIsraeli-Hungarian mathematician (1886–1957)
- László Bús-Feketeb. 1896HUHungarian author and screenwriter (1896–1971)
- István Feketeb. 1900HU(1900–1970) Hungarian writer
- Imre Rádayb. 1905HUnot in their usual nameHungarian actor (1905–1983)
- Imre Feketeb. 1906HUHungarian athlete
- Maria von Tasnadyb. 1911HUnot in their usual nameHungarian actress (1911-2001)
- Ibolya Feketeb. 1951HUHungarian film director (born 1951)
- Vladimir Feketeb. 1955SKSlovak Roman Catholic prelate
- András Fekete-Győrb. 1989HUHungarian politician, party leader (1989–)
- Judit FeketeHUHungarian actress
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 31 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Fekete mean, and where does it come from?
- black Recorded by Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian.
- In which country does Fekete have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.1 thousand people named Fekete in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fekete.
- How common is the name Fekete?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,027 people named Fekete in 2010, about 1 in 164 thousand residents.
- How common is Fekete compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Fekete is the 22nd most common surname of 88,284 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/feketeThe 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, “Fekete” — the 22nd most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.