Vitéz

surname · Latin script

Meaning: valiant, brave, courageous, heroic, gallant

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/viteːz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Vitéz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 5.7K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 9.6K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 934K

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.

Croatia (measured from records)

742 people, 2021

Sources
12 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

valiant, brave, courageous, heroic, gallant

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vitéz 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.

Where Vitéz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
HR Croatia7421 in 5.7K742—
US United States2531 in 1.3M273—
SI Slovenia2201 in 9.6K220—
ES Spain181 in 2.8M18—
AR Argentina101 in 4.5M10—
CH Switzerland91 in 934K9—
CZ Czechia91 in 1.2M9—

742 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Vitéz is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Vitez

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Vítĕz, Vitez, Vítěz, Viteź

  • Swedish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden

    Also written Vitez

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written Vitez

8 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1400160018002000János Vitéz, b. 1408Johann Vitéz, b. 1500Mihály Csokonai Vitéz, b. 1773Miklós Vitéz, b. 1888Matyas Vitez, b. 1891Attila Vitéz, b. 1891Gábor Vitéz, b. 1930György Vitéz, b. 1933László Vitéz, b. 1949Ferenc Vitéz, b. 1965

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)

FormalTisztelt Vitéz!Dear Vitéz, (English)
InformalTisztelt Vitéz!Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Vitéz
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20244#118,617
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—2#171,639

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 Vitéz mean, and where does it come from?
valiant, brave, courageous, heroic, gallant Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Vitéz?
A machine transcription gives /viteːz/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
In which country does Vitéz have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 742 people named Vitéz, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Vitéz most common?
Vitéz is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.7 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Vitéz?
In Croatia, the national register counted 742 people named Vitéz in 2021, about 1 in 5.7 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vit%C3%A9z

The 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, “Vitéz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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