Lengyel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ethnic name for a Pole, lengyel ‘Polish’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫɛŋˌjɛɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lengyel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 85K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 107K
- SESweden1 in 124K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 85K (inferred from the name graph)
1,705 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
ethnic name for a Pole, lengyel ‘Polish’. The name was used to denote not only ethnic Poles but also Polish speakers and people who had lived in Poland. The family name is fairly frequent amongst western Ashkenazic Jews from the former Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lengyel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,705 | 1 in 195K | 1.7K | Lengyel | 5 |
| CZ Czechia | 100 | 1 in 107K | 100 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 99 | 1 in 85K | 99 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 82 | 1 in 124K | 82 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 79 | 1 in 633K | 79 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 28 | 1 in 199K | 28 | — | — |
1,705 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Lengyel 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 Hungarian, Polish (of or relating to Poland, its people or language)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Melchior Lengyelb. 1880HUHungarian writer (1880-1974)
- József Lengyelb. 1896HUHungarian writer and poet (1896–1975)
- Olga Lengyelb. 1908HUHungarian-born Holocaust survivor and writer (1908-2001)
- Árpád Lengyelb. 1915HUswimmer
- Balázs Lengyelb. 1918HUHungarian writer, literary critic (1918-2007)
- Gabriella Lengyelb. 1920HUHungarian violinist (1920–1993)
- Levente Lengyelb. 1933HUHungarian chess player (1933–2014)
- Tamás Lengyelb. 1977HUHungarian actor
- Roman Lengyelb. 1978CZCzech soccer player
- xQcb. 1995CAnot in their usual nameCanadian Twitch streamer (born 1995)
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 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,761 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,861 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,328 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 100 | #16,677 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 99 | #11,154 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 98 | #7,793 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 82 | #8,442 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 79 | #32,668 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 79 | #32,413 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 28 | #39,369 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Lengyel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɛŋˌjɛɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- Where does the name Lengyel come from?
- ethnic name for a Pole, lengyel ‘Polish’. The name was used to denote not only ethnic Poles but also Polish speakers and people who had lived in Poland. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Lengyel mean?
- Recorded meaning: ethnic name for a Pole, lengyel ‘Polish’.
- In which country does Lengyel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Lengyel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lengyel.
- Where is Lengyel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lengyel is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 85 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lengyel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,705 people named Lengyel in 2010, about 1 in 195 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/lengyelThe 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, “Lengyel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.