Hernádi

surname · Latin script

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

Hernádi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 12M(measured from records)

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.

Belgium (measured from records)

1 people, 2008

Sources
53 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 12M (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

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 Hernadi in US United States, DE Germany, AU Australia and 3 more.

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)

Típusa: Helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Alapszavának, a német eredetű Herrant ~ Herrand személynévnek a jelentése nincs tisztázva, de ez került Hernan ~ Hernand alakban a magyar névkincsbe még az Árpád-házi királyok idején. Később magyar névadással (minden végződés vagy összetétel nélkül, puszta személynévként) helységnévvé vált Abaúj, Baranya, Pest, Somogy, Vas, Zemplén vármegyében. Ezek bármelyikéhez járulhatott az ’onnan/oda való’ jelentésű -i képző, s eredetre, származási helyre utaló családnévvé vált. A Hernád víznév a ’magasan fekvő irtvány’ jelentésű, szintén német eredetű Honrade szóból származik. Ennek partján, közelében lakók hasonlóképpen megkaphatták az ’onnan/oda való’ jelentésű -i képzővel ellátott Hernádi, szintén eredetre, származási helyre utaló családnevet. Elterjedtsége: Az északkeleti nyelvterületen, különösen Borsod megyében gyakori.

Sources 1

  • Családnevek enciklopédiája

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hernádi 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 Hernádi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BE Belgium11 in 12M1—1
US United States———Hernadi53
DE Germany———Hernadi40
AU Australia———Hernadi23
GB United Kingdom———Hernadi4
AT Austria———Hernadi10
HU Hungary———Hernadi2

1 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)

Hernádi is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Also written Hernadi

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Hernadi

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Honduras

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Hernadi, Hernädi

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Hernadi

  • Slovak surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia

    Also written Hernadi

4 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)

1850190019502000Kornél Hernádi-Herzl, b. 1858György Hernádi, b. 1899Lajos Hernádi, b. 1906Gyula Hernádi, b. 1926Miklós Hernádi, b. 1944András Hernádi, b. 1946Tibor Hernádi, b. 1951Fatima Hernadi, b. 1951Judit Hernádi, b. 1956Zsolt Hernádi, b. 1960

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 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • 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 Hernádi mean?
Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév.
In which country does Hernádi have the most bearers?
In Belgium, the national register counted about 1 people named Hernádi, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Hernádi most common?
Hernádi is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Hernádi?
In Belgium, the national register counted 1 people named Hernádi in 2008, about 1 in 12 million residents.

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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, “Hernádi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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