Zichy
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname, the name of a noble Hungarian family, conspicuous in Hungarian history from the latter part of the 13th century onwards
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/zitʃi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zichy is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Belgium.
- Belgium (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 1 (measured from records)
no count published
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)a surname, the name of a noble Hungarian family, conspicuous in Hungarian history from the latter part of the 13th century onwards
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zichy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | — | 10 | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 10 | — |
| FR France | — | 7 | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 5 | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 4 | — |
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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)- Károly Zichyb. 1753HUHungarian large estate owner, politician (1753–1826)
- Mihaly von Zichyb. 1827HUHungarian painter (1827-1906)
- Ferdinánd Zichyb. 1829HUHungarian politician (1829-1911)
- Melanie Metternich-Zichyb. 1832ATAustrian princess (1832-1919)
- Jenő Zichyb. 1837HUHungarian politician (1837-1906)
- Géza Zichyb. 1849HUHungarian classical pianist, composer and poet (1849–1924)
- Aladár Zichyb. 1864HUHungarian foreign minister (1864-1937)
- Gyula Zichyb. 1871HURoman Catholic bishop (1871–1942)
- Theodore Zichyb. 1908GBBritish actor, photographer, film director, producer and playboy
- Anita Countess Zichy-Thyssenb. 1909DEdaughter of Fritz Thyssen, co-founder of the Thyssen Foundation
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 10 | #71,187 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 10 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #74,199 |
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 Zichy mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname, the name of a noble Hungarian family, conspicuous in Hungarian history from the latter part of the 13th century onwards Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Zichy?
- A machine transcription gives /zitʃi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Zichy have the most bearers?
- Zichy is most frequently recorded in Belgium.
What do you want to know about Zichy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zichyThe 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, “Zichy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.