Ferenczi
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/fɛrɛnt͡si/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ferenczi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Apanévi vagy helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév.
- UYUruguay1 in 161K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 171K
- SESweden1 in 364K
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
- 99 (measured from records)
- 1 in 161K (inferred from the name graph)
169 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Típusa: Apanévi vagy helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Előzményének legmesszebbre visszakövetkeztethető eredete a germán frank népnév, melynek jelentése egyesek szerint ’bátor, elszánt’, mások szerint ’szabad’. A frank népnév a latinban francus alakú és ’frank törzshöz tartozó’, végül ’francia’ jelentésű lett. Olasz változata Francesco, Assisi Szent Ferenc neve volt, s ennek latinos változata, a Franciscus került be a Martyrologium Romanumba (a Római Katolikus Egyház szenteket és boldogokat fölsoroló könyvébe), s vált különböző alakváltozatokkal a keresztény világban keresztnévvé. A magyarban a latin -us végződés elhagyása után tovább rövidült a név Franc formára. Ennek névkezdő (Fr-) mássalhangzó-torlódása -e- bontóhangot kapott, a második magánhangzó pedig ehhez az -e-hez hasonult a magánhangzó-harmónia megteremtése céljából. Az így kialakult Ferenc keresztnévhez -i birtokjel járult, s apai családnévvé lett ’Ferencé, Ferenc nevű személy fia, leszármazotta’ jelentéssel. Ferenc keresztnevünk magyar névadással (minden végződés vagy összetétel nélkül) a falu birtokosa nevéből településnévvé vált Baranya, Sáros és Zaránd vármegyében. Ezek bármelyike megkapva az ’onnan/oda való’ jelentésű -i képzőt eredetre, származási helyre utaló családnévvé lett. A Ferencei alakokban az -e lehet kicsinyítő képző is, de kétszeres birtokjel is. Elterjedtsége: Erdélyben különösen gyakori.
Sources 1
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ferenczi 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 | 169 | 1 in 2M | 169 | — | 5 |
| ES Spain | 53 | 1 in 944K | 53 | — | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 44 | 1 in 4.8M | 44 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 32 | 1 in 171K | 32 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 28 | 1 in 364K | 28 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 24 | 1 in 446K | 24 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 21 | 1 in 400K | 21 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 21 | 1 in 161K | 21 | — | — |
169 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sándor Ferenczib. 1873HUHungarian psychoanalyst (1873–1933)
- Géza Ferenczib. 1924RORomanian-Hungarian archeologist (1924–2007)
- Imre Ferenczib. 1931HUHungarian historian (1931–1989)
- Hedva Ferencib. 1933HUnot in their usual namepainter
- Gábor Ferenczib. 1950HUHungarian film director, television director, screenwriter, actor and teacher (born 1950)
- Krisztina Ferenczib. 1950HUHungarian actress, journalist, author, poet (1950–2015)
- István Ferenczib. 1977HUHungarian association football player
- Gábor Ferenczib. 1977HUHungarian politician
- Ildiko Ferenczib. 1983CACanadian actress
- János Ferenczib. 1991HUHungarian association football player (b. 1991)
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 22 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 169 | #105,600 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 168 | #99,725 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 165 | #113,026 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 53 | #42,991 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 53 | #42,563 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 44 | #114,634 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 32 | #34,090 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 28 | #19,713 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 24 | #47,732 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 21 | #35,283 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 21 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Ferenczi?
- A machine transcription gives /fɛrɛnt͡si/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- What does the name Ferenczi mean?
- Recorded meaning: Típusa: Apanévi vagy helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév.
- In which country does Ferenczi have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 169 people named Ferenczi, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ferenczi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ferenczi is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 161 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ferenczi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 169 people named Ferenczi in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ferencziThe 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, “Ferenczi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.