Kolozsi
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/koloʒi/(machine-generated) Hungarian · model-generated · uncertain
Kolozsi is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Hungary. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi vagy apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév.
- HUHungary
- USUnited States
- SKSlovakia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Típusa: Helynévi vagy apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Végső forrása a görög ’győzelem’ í [níkë] és ’nép’ jelentésű ó [l™ósz] szavak összetételéből keletkezett ó [Nikól™osz] keresztnév. Ez a németben először Niklaus, majd az elején csonkulva Klaus alakúvá vált. Miután a magyar nyelvbe bekerült, a név eleji mássalhangzó-torlódás -o- bontóhanggal föloldódott, az -au- kettőshangzó (diftongus) pedig -ó- ~ -o-vá egyszerűsödött (monoftongizálódott). Végül a név végi -s hang zöngésült -zs-vé. Az így kialakult Kolozs személynév (amely az írásban sokáig Kolos formájú maradt) magyar névadással (minden végződés vagy összetétel nélkül) településnévvé vált Kolozs, Komárom, Nyitra, Zala vármegyében. Mások szerint a helynév a ’hegyszoros, sziklahasadék’ jelentésű szláv *klúzs szóból származik. Bármi is a magyarázata a településnévnek, ha megkapta az ’onnan/oda való’ jelentésű magyar -i képzőt, magyar eredetre, származási helyre utaló családnév vált belőle. Ugyanakkor a Kolozs személynévből is alakulhatott apai családnév -i birtokjellel, akkor a jelentése ’Kolozs nevű személy fia, leszármazotta’. Elterjedtsége: A Dunától keletre, különösen Erdélyben gyakoribb.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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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)- Tibor Kolozsib. 1965ROHungarian sculptor from Romania
- Ildikó Kolozsib. 1970HUHungarian journalist
- Gábor Kolozsi Borsosb. 1986ROHungarian actor from Romania
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12 | #109,635 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 5 | #100,535 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 5 | #118,935 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #198,997 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Kolozsi?
- It depends on the language: in Hungarian /koloʒi/; in Slovak /kolozsi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Kolozsi mean?
- Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi vagy apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév.
- In which country does Kolozsi have the most bearers?
- Kolozsi is most frequently recorded in Hungary.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kolozsiThe 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
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kolozsi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.