Palyi
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Palyi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.
- HUHungary≈1 in 105K(inferred from the name graph)
- RORomania≈1 in 764K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
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
- 25 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 105K (inferred from the name graph)
≈93 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pályi in HU Hungary.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Palyi 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 | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Pályi | 25 |
| RO Romania | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 764K | — | Palyi | 5 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | — | Palyi | 1 |
| US United States | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 42M | listed | Palyi | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 13M | — | Palyi | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Palyi 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 clt, tongue
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)
- Andrei Nikolayevich Palyb. 1971UAnot in their usual nameRussian commander
- Andrei Palyb. 1976RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician
- Bar Palyb. 1982ILnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Palyi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 93 people named Palyi in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pályi.
- How common is the name Palyi?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 3 people named Palyi in 2024, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Palyi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/palyiThe 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, “Palyi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.