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’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɝtɪʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kertesz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 652K(measured from records)
- HUHungary≈1 in 10K
- RORomania≈1 in 27K
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)
- Sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈960 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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 | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Kertesz | 4 |
| RO Romania | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Kertesz | 11 |
| US United States | 510 | 1 in 652K | 530 | Kertesz | 173 |
| CA Canada | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 263K | — | Kertesz | 49 |
| DE Germany | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 595K | listed | Kertesz | 46 |
| CZ Czechia | 56 | 1 in 191K | 56 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 27 | 1 in 217K | 27 | — | — |
| BZ Belize | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | 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; 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).
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)
- Heinrich Kerteszb. 1869ATHolocaust victim (born 1869)
- Gabriele Kerteszb. 1872ATHolocaust victim (born 1872)
- Oskar Kerteszb. 1879HUHolocaust victim (born 1879)
- Lady Gillian Cecilb. 1935GBnot in their usual namedaughter of David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter
- 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)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 530 | #39,111 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 510 | #42,511 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 492 | #46,623 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 27 | #18,114 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 4 | #127,631 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 4 | #21,937 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 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?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɝtɪʃ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kertesz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 963 people named Kertesz in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kertesz.
- 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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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 2026-10-10.