Sulyok
surname · Latin script
Meaning: beater, battledore, dolly, beetle, laundry bat, washing paddle (a thick, rectangle wooden utensil with a short handle used in the old days for hammering laundry to push out the dirt)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃujok/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sulyok is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 1.3M
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.5M
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
10 people
Community-sourced
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
beater, battledore, dolly, beetle, laundry bat, washing paddle (a thick, rectangle wooden utensil with a short handle used in the old days for hammering laundry to push out the dirt)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sulyok 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 10 | 1 in 5M | 10 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 8 | 1 in 1.3M | 8 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 5 | 1 in 3.5M | 5 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
10 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dezső Sulyokb. 1897HUHungarian politician (1897–1965)
- Béla Sulyokb. 1904HUHungarian economist, politician (1904-1977)
- Mária Sulyokb. 1908HUHungarian actress (1908-1987)
- Imre Sulyokb. 1912HUHungarian conductor (1912-2008)
- Tamás Sulyokb. 1930HU(1930--2020) conductor
- Vince Sulyokb. 1932NOHungarian-Norwegian librarian and poet (1932-2009)
- Tamás Sulyokb. 1956HUHungarian lawyer, president of Hungary (2024–2026), member of the Hungarian Constitutional Court (2014–2024)
- Sándor Sulyokb. 1958chess player
- Miklós Sulyokb. 1958HUHungarian art historian
- Michael SulyokATresearcher
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 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10 | #120,154 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 8 | #72,019 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 5 | #77,247 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #291,834 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #232,376 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Sulyok mean, and where does it come from?
- beater, battledore, dolly, beetle, laundry bat, washing paddle (a thick, rectangle wooden utensil with a short handle used in the old days for hammering laundry to push out the dirt) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sulyok?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃujok/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- In which country does Sulyok have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 10 people named Sulyok, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sulyok most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sulyok is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.1 million people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sulyok?
- In Spain, the national register counted 10 people named Sulyok, about 1 in 5.0 million 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/sulyokThe 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, “Sulyok”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.