Jeney
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/jɛnɛi/(machine-generated) Hungarian · model-generated
Jeney is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2.6M
- CZCzechia1 in 3.6M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 276K (inferred from the name graph)
127 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jeney 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 | 127 | 1 in 2.6M | 141 | Jeney | 128 |
| AU Australia | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 934K | — | Jeney | 27 |
| CA Canada | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Jeney | 11 |
| AT Austria | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 354K | — | Jeney | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | — | Jeney | 11 |
| IE Ireland | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 695K | — | Jeney | 1 |
| GY Guyana | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 276K | — | Jeney | 1 |
127 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 2000. 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)- Mihály Lajos Jeneyb. 1723HUAustro-Hungarian army officer
- Jenő Béla Jeneyb. 1874HUcaricaturist (1874-1950)
- István Jeneyb. 1887HUHungarian rower
- Endre Jeneyb. 1891HUHungarian physician (1891-1970)
- Zoltán Jeneyb. 1915HU(1915-1981) flutist, music pedagogue
- László Jeneyb. 1923HUHungarian water polo player (1923–2006)
- Lajos Jeneyb. 1933HUHungarian architect
- Zoltán Jeneyb. 1943HUHungarian composer (1943–2019)
- Annamária Jeney-Tóthb. 1970HUHungarian historian
- Zsigmond JeneyHUresearcher
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 141 | #114,852 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 127 | #133,048 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 118 | #143,511 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Jeney?
- In Hungarian /jɛnɛi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Jeney have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 127 people named Jeney, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jeney.
- How common is the name Jeney?
- In the United States, the national register counted 127 people named Jeney in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 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/jeneyThe 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, “Jeney”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.