Szabo
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Szabo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Hungarian Szabó, from szabó (“tailor”).
- HUHungary≈1 in 296(inferred from the name graph)
- SKSlovakia1 in 798
- RORomania≈1 in 2.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Szabo itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Hungary (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 281 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 296 (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
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 Szabó in SK Slovakia.
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)
- HungarianSzabó(measured from records)
- Hungarian rootszabó“tailor”(measured from records)
From Hungarian Szabó, from szabó (“tailor”).
Sources 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Szabo 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 | #2 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 296 | 196K | Szabo | 199 |
| RO Romania | #59 | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Szabo | 67 |
| US United States | — | 8,899as Sabo | 1 in 37K | 9K | Szabo | 281 |
| SK Slovakia | #16 | 6,818 | 1 in 798 | 6.8K | Szabó | 82 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Szabo | 93 |
| HR Croatia | — | 1,443as Sabo | 1 in 2.9K | 1.4K | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 221as Sabo | 1 in 9.5K | 221 | — | 6 |
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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Szabo 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 Croatian, hrv. konzervator i muzealac ( Sredovječni gradovi u Hrvatskoj i Slavoniji , Kroz Hrvatsko zagorje , Stari Zagreb )
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Lőrinc Szabób. 1900HUHungarian poet, translator (1900–1957)
- Magda Szabób. 1917HUHungarian writer, poet and translator (1917–2007)
- László Szabób. 1917HUHungarian chess player (1917–1998)
- Violette Szabob. 1921FRFrench-British SOE spy
- László Szabób. 1936HUHungarian actor, film director and screenwriter
- István Szabób. 1938HUHungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director (born 1938)
- Nick Szabob. 1964USAmerican computer scientist
- Ecaterina Szabob. 1968RORomanian artistic gymnast and coach (born 1968)
- Gabriella Szabób. 1975RORomanian athletics (sport) competitor
- Sophie Evansb. 1976HUnot in their usual nameHungarian pornographic 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 36 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.7K | #4,619 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7.7K | #4,278 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.4K | #4,632 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 288 | #2,811 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 233 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 19 | #13,947 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Szabo mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hungarian Szabó, from szabó (“tailor”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Szabo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Szabo in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled szabo.
- How common is the name Szabo?
- In Slovakia, the national register counted 6,818 people named Szabo in 1995, about 1 in 798 residents.
- How common is Szabo compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Szabo is the 2nd most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/szaboThe 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, “Szabo” — the 2nd most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.