Ferencz
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈfɛɹɪntʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ferencz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Hungarian Ferencz.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 165K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 199K
- CZCzechia1 in 210K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- 1 in 165K (inferred from the name graph)
530 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Hungarian Ferencz.
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ferencz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 530 | 1 in 628K | 584 | Ferencz | 112 |
| BR Brazil | — | 112 | 1 in 1.9M | 112 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 62 | 1 in 617K | 34 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 51 | 1 in 210K | 51 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 51 | 1 in 165K | 51 | — | 5 |
| NO Norway | — | 24 | 1 in 228K | 24 | — | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 17 | 1 in 199K | 17 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 16 | 1 in 319K | 16 | — | — |
| HU Hungary | #228 | — | — | — | Ferencz | 115 |
530 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
- József Ferenczb. 1835ROHungarian Unitarian bishop
- Károly Ferenczb. 1913HUHungarian wrestler
- Ben Ferenczb. 1920USAmerican lawyer and pacifist born in Romania (Great Romania Kingdom)
- István Ferenczb. 1944HUHungarian architect
- Éva Ferenczb. 1951HUHungarian actress (1951–2013)
- Győző Ferenczb. 1954HUHungarian poet, literary historian, and translator
- Olivér Ferenczb. 1978HUHungarian electrical engineer
- Csaba Ferenczb. 1985HUHungarian basketball player (born 1985)
- Réka Forikab. 1989ROnot in their usual nameRomanian biathlete (1989–)
- Andrea FerenczHUresearcher
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 33 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 584 | #40,442 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 530 | #41,100 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 478 | #42,677 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 112 | #58,162 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 51 | #18,386 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 51 | #28,881 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 51 | #10,581 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 34 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 34 | #64,045 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 28 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 28 | #72,814 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 24 | #38,943 |
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
- What does the name Ferencz mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Hungarian Ferencz. Recorded by Wiktionary and Családnevek enciklopédiája.
- How do you pronounce Ferencz?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfɛɹɪntʃ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ferencz have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 530 people named Ferencz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ferencz.
- Where is Ferencz most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ferencz is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 165 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ferencz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 530 people named Ferencz in 2010, about 1 in 628 thousand residents.
- How common is Ferencz compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Ferencz is the 228th most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ferencz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ferenczThe 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, “Ferencz” — the 228th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.