Kertesz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a gardener, kertesz, from kert ‘garden’, a derivative of one of three Hungarian verbs keriil ‘to go around or avoid’, kerit ‘to encircle’, or kering ‘to go around in circles’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kɛrtɛs/(machine-generated) Hungarian · model-generated · uncertain
Kertesz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 191K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 217K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 230Kfew records
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.
- Hungary (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Kertesz
- Hungarian:/kɛrtɛs/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)occupational name for a gardener, kertesz, from kert ‘garden’, a derivative of one of three Hungarian verbs keriil ‘to go around or avoid’, kerit ‘to encircle’, or kering ‘to go around in circles’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kertesz is found
(measured from records)Kertesz 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Kertesz | 4 |
| US United States | 510 | 1 in 652K | 530 | Kertesz | 173 |
| RO Romania | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Kertesz | 11 |
| DE Germany | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 537K | listed | Kertesz | 46 |
| CA Canada | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 280K | — | Kertesz | 49 |
| CZ Czechia | 56 | 1 in 191K | 56 | — | — |
| BZ Belize | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Kertesz | 1 |
| GY Guyana | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Kertesz | 1 |
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; 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Kertesz is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Andre, US photographer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Oskar Kerteszb. 1879HUHolocaust victim (born 1879)
- Arpad Kerteszb. 1950ITItalian photographer (1950–2016)
- Andreas Kerteszb. 1969SESwedish fencer
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kertesz mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name for a gardener, kertesz, from kert ‘garden’, a derivative of one of three Hungarian verbs keriil ‘to go around or avoid’, kerit ‘to encircle’, or kering ‘to go around in circles’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kertesz?
- In Hungarian /kɛrtɛs/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kertesz?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Kertesz in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kertesz. After it come United States, Romania, Germany and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kertesz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 510 people named Kertesz in 2010, about 1 in 652 thousand 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/kerteszThe 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, “Kertesz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.