Gulyas

surname · Latin script

Meaning: occupational name for a herdsman, from gulya ‘cattle’

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Gulyas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 44th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 96K
  • RORomania≈1 in 109K

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)

≈3,200 people, est.

Sources
113 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Hungary, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gulyás in HU Hungary, SK Slovakia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

occupational name for a herdsman, from gulya ‘cattle’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gulyas 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.

Where Gulyas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HU Hungary#44≈3,200 est.≈1 in 3K19KGulyás113
US United States—5091 in 654K509Gulyas89
SA Saudi Arabia—≈360 est.≈1 in 96K—Gulyas3
EG Egypt—≈310 est.≈1 in 336K—Gulyas4
RO Romania—≈200 est.≈1 in 109K—Gulyas9
CZ Czechia—691 in 155K69Gulyas9
SK Slovakia—≈46 est.≈1 in 117K—Gulyás13

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; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gulyas is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Gulyás, Guelyas, Gülyas, Gulyàs

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

    Also written Gulyás, Gulyàs

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Gulyás, Gülyas

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Gulyàs, Gulyás

  • Danish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Gulyás, Gulyàs

  • Swahili surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Gülyas

  • Russian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Гуляс, Gulyaş, Gulyás

25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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 21 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Gulyas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010509#42,579
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000506#40,690
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020476#47,959
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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 Gulyas mean, and where does it come from?
occupational name for a herdsman, from gulya ‘cattle’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Gulyas have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Gulyas in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gulyás.
How common is the name Gulyas?
In the United States, the national register counted 509 people named Gulyas in 2010, about 1 in 654 thousand residents.
How common is Gulyas compared with other names?
In Hungary, Gulyas is the 44th most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Gulyas” — the 44th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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