Koncz
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈkont͡s/(recorded in a dictionary) Hungarian · from Wiktionary
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 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 24Kfew records
- RORomania≈1 in 47Kfew 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
- 104 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,500 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 Koncz
- Hungarian:/ˈkont͡s/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
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 the surname Koncz is found
(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 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Koncz | 104 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Koncz | 23 |
| US United States | — | 248 | 1 in 1.3M | 248 | Koncz | 49 |
| SK Slovakia | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Koncz | 19 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 682K | — | Koncz | 12 |
| 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)- Gábor Konczb. 1938HUHungarian actor
- Shusha Konczb. 1946HUHungarian singer
- Christoph Konczb. 1987AT(1987-) classical violinist and conductor
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.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Koncz?
- In Hungarian /ˈkont͡s/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Koncz mean?
- Recorded meaning: Típusa: Tulajdonságra utaló vagy apanévi eredetű, magyar vagy német családnév. Eredete: Két név egybeesése.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Koncz?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.5 thousand people named Koncz in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled koncz. After it come Romania, United States, Slovakia and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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.