Koncz
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/kɑntʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Koncz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Tulajdonságra utaló vagy apanévi eredetű, magyar vagy német családnév. Eredete: Két név egybeesése.
- HUHungary≈1 in 5.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- RORomania≈1 in 59K
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 117K
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)
- Record sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Típusa: Tulajdonságra utaló vagy apanévi eredetű, magyar vagy német családnév. Eredete: Két név egybeesése. Szláv eredetű és eleinte ’húsdarab, állati comb’, majd ’zsákmány, préda’ jelentésű konc szavunk alakja keveredett az ’emberi comb’ jelentésű bonc szóval. A pars pro toto (egy rész szimbolizálja az egészet) elv alapján mint külső tulajdonság családnévvé válhatott (’erős fölső lábszárú, vastag combú’ jelentéssel). Ugyanakkor az ófelnémet ’merész, bátor’ jelentésű kuoni és a ’tanács’ jelentésű rât szavak összetételéből kialakult a Kuonrat személynév, amiből a ’merész a tanácskozásban’ jelentésű Konrad lett. Ennek rövidült és -c kicsinyítő képzős változata is átkerülhetett a magyarba. Itt minden változtatás nélkül, Konc alakban apai családnévvé válhatott. Jelentése ekkor ’Konc (Konrád) nevű személy fia, leszármazotta’. Elterjedtsége: A Tiszától keletre, Nyírségben, Erdélyben, főleg Udvarhelyszékben gyakori.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Koncz 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 | #201 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Koncz | 104 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Koncz | 23 |
| US United States | — | 248 | 1 in 1.3M | 248 | Koncz | 49 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 656K | — | Koncz | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Koncz | 22 |
| SK Slovakia | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | Koncz | 19 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 27 | 1 in 311K | 27 | Koncz | 5 |
| NO Norway | — | 26 | 1 in 210K | 26 | — | 2 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)- István Konczb. 1907HUHungarian electrical engineer (1907-1978)
- Gábor Konczb. 1938HUHungarian actor
- Shusha Konczb. 1946HUHungarian singer
- Ferenc Konczb. 1959HUHungarian politician (1959-2020)
- Gabriella Konczb. 1960HUfilm editor
- Zsolt Konczb. 1977HUHungarian association football player
- Tamás Konczb. 1982HU(1982-) journalist, writer
- Christoph Konczb. 1987AT(1987-) classical violinist and conductor
- Teréz Konczb. 1988HUfilm director
- Irén KonczHUHungarian Righteous Among the Nations
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 248 | #77,264 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 235 | #85,600 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 199 | #86,992 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 27 | #29,501 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 26 | #37,939 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Koncz?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑntʃ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Koncz mean?
- Recorded meaning: Típusa: Tulajdonságra utaló vagy apanévi eredetű, magyar vagy német családnév. Eredete: Két név egybeesése.
- In which country does Koncz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Koncz in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled koncz.
- How common is the name Koncz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 248 people named Koncz in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Koncz compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Koncz is the 201st most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Koncz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/konczThe 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, “Koncz” — the 201st most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.