Jenei
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jenei is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév.
- SESweden1 in 340K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 423K
- FIFinland1 in 507K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 340K (inferred from the name graph)
124 people, 2010
Reference-verified
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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: Alapszavából, az ótörök eredetű és ’tanácsadó’ vagy ’az uralkodó bizalmasa’ jelentésű ïnaq [¿n™k] méltóságnévből személynév vagy inkább személynevek közszói eleme lett még a törökben, s a magyarba már ¿n™k ~ jÀnÀ [jenegh] alakban mint törzsnév került. Később a név végi - hang vokalizálódott -ü-vé, az -eü kettőshangzó pedig hosszú -ő-vé vált. Az így létrejött Jenő alakból személynév, valamint magyar névadással (minden végződés vagy összetétel nélkül) helynév vált Arad, Baranya, Bereg, Bihar, Közép-Szolnok, Nógrád, Pest, Temes, Veszprém vármegyében. Mindegyikhez kapcsolódhatott az ’onnan/oda való’ jelentésű -i képző, ami által eredetre, származási helyre utaló családnév lett. A családnevek különböző változatai a JÀnÀ > Jenő alakulásmódok különböző állomásait mutatják. Ugyanakkor a Jenő személynévből is alakulhatott közvetlenül családnév az -i birtokjel hozzátoldásával, s akkor ’Jenő nevű személy fia, leszármazotta’ a jelentése. Elterjedtsége: A Dunától keletre, a Tiszántúl nagy részén gyakoribb.
Sources 1
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jenei 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.
124 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Yevgeny Yeneyb. 1890HUnot in their usual nameSoviet production designer (1890-1971)
- Ferenc Jeneib. 1905HUHungarian literary historian, archivist (1905–1971)
- Emerich Jeneib. 1937RORomanian footballer (1937–2025)
- György Jeneib. 1942HUHungarian philosopher, sociologist and university teacher (1942-2024)
- István Jeneib. 1953HUHungarian sports shooter (1953-2011)
- Gyula Jeneib. 1962HU(1962-) poet
- László Jeneib. 1964HUHungarian writer
- Sándor Jeneib. 1965HUHungarian football player
- Anikó Jeneib. 1965HUfootball player
- Szilveszter JeneiHUHungarian musician
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 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 124 | #135,593 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 101 | #149,328 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 100 | #155,682 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 30 | #18,961 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 18 | #88,854 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 11 | #44,017 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 10 | #31,315 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8 | #46,857 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Jenei mean?
- Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév.
- In which country does Jenei have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 124 people named Jenei, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Jenei most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jenei is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 340 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jenei?
- In the United States, the national register counted 124 people named Jenei in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jeneiThe 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, “Jenei”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.