Szepesi
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/sɛpɛʃi/(machine-generated) Hungarian · model-generated
Szepesi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév.
- HUHungary≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 600K
- CZCzechia1 in 764K
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
- 87 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Típusa: Helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Valószínűleg ősi finnugor eredetű szép szavunk jelentése a rokonnyelvi megfelelők szerint a Honfoglalás előtt még ’okos, ügyes, leleményes, tevékeny’ lehetett, de igen korán kialakulhatott a ’tetszetős, mutatós, gyönyörködtető’ jelentése is. Ebből vált személynévvé önállóan is, ’valamivel ellátott’ jelentésű -s képzővel is. A Szepes egyéni név magyar névadással településnévvé vált Bihar, Sáros és Szepes vármegyében. Bármelyikhez járulhatott az ’onnan/oda való’ jelentésű -i képző, és eredetre, származási helyre utaló családnév lett belőle. Leginkább Szepes vármegye, az egész Szepességre vonatkozó Szepes helynév a családnév alapja. A Szepsi alakokban a kétnyíltszótagos tendencia szerint esett ki a második szótag magánhangzója. Elterjedtsége: A Dunától keletre, a Tiszán túl gyakoribb.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Szepesi 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 | #427 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Szepesi | 87 |
| US United States | — | 102 | 1 in 3.3M | 102 | Szepesi | 54 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 273K | — | Szepesi | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Szepesi | 10 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 524K | — | Szepesi | 7 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 14 | 1 in 764K | 14 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 14 | 1 in 600K | 14 | Szepesi | 5 |
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). 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)- Imre Szepesib. 1811HUHungarian philologist (1811–1875)
- Endre Szepesib. 1906HUHungarian electrical engineer, university teacher (1906-1977)
- György Szepesib. 1922HUradio personality, journalist and sports executive (1922–2018)
- Kálmán Szepesib. 1930HUHungarian table tennis player
- Eva Szepesib. 1932HUHolocaust survivor and author
- Gusztáv Szepesib. 1939HUHungarian footballer (1939–1987)
- Attila Szepesib. 1942UA(1942 - 2017) poet, opinion journalist
- Mátyás Szepesib. 1975HU(1975–) Hungarian musician
- Ivett Szepesib. 1986HUHungarian handball player
- Nikolett Szepesib. 1987HUHungarian swimmer
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 102 | #158,432 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 14 | #47,506 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 14 | #66,412 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 14 | #17,170 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Szepesi?
- In Hungarian /sɛpɛʃi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Szepesi mean?
- Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév.
- In which country does Szepesi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Szepesi in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled szepesi.
- How common is the name Szepesi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 102 people named Szepesi in 2010, about 1 in 3.3 million residents.
- How common is Szepesi compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Szepesi is the 427th most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/szepesiThe 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, “Szepesi” — the 427th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.