Akos
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Akos is a given name, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 71st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script.
- HUHungary1 in 310◐
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M
- SKSlovakia1 in 4.2K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈32K ●
- Sources
- 152 ●
- 1 in 310 ◐
across 11 countries
9.9K records
Official registry-verified
Hungary
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Ákos in SK Slovakia, SE Sweden, RS Serbia and 2 more and Acas in PH Philippines.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #71 | 31,566△ | 7.7K rec. | 1 in 310 | 32K | Akos | 152 |
| SK Slovakia | #471 | 587 | 51 rec. | — | — | Ákos | 37 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 379 | 197 rec. | — | listed | Akos | 59 |
| RO Romania | — | 294 | 116 rec. | — | — | Akos | 35 |
| US United States | — | 187 | 1K rec. | 1 in 1.8M | 187 | Akos | 114 |
| GH Ghana | #633 | 166 | 190 rec. | — | — | Akos | 10 |
| BE Belgium | — | 103 | 101 rec. | — | 6 | Akos | 11 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 59 | 38 rec. | — | — | Akos | 20 |
| PL Poland | — | 50△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 766K | 50 | Akos | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 48△ | 16 rec. | 1 in 213K | 48 | Ákos | 12 |
| RS Serbia | — | 44 | 13 rec. | — | — | Ákos | 12 |
| CA Canada | — | 43 | 37 rec. | — | — | Akos | 24 |
Roughly 32K people in Hungary bear this name (about 1 in 310). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hungarian442K99%
- English1.8K1%
- German1K1%
- Polish2281%
- French2161%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 441,647 | 99% |
| English | 1,777 | 1% |
| German | 1,039 | 1% |
| Polish | 228 | 1% |
| French | 216 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Akos is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In hnn, rattan strips dyed red
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bik, child; kid
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 20 |
| 2000 | 21 |
| 2001 | 20 |
| 2002 | 20 |
| 2003 | 20 |
| 2004 | 19 |
| 2005 | 18 |
| 2006 | 20 |
| 2007 | 22 |
| 2008 | 24 |
| 2009 | 24 |
| 2010 | 23 |
| 2011 | 24 |
| 2012 | 22 |
| 2013 | 22 |
| 2014 | 20 |
| 2015 | 21 |
| 2016 | 23 |
| 2017 | 24 |
| 2018 | 24 |
| 2019 | 24 |
| 2020 | 24 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Akos Schafferb. 1912CZHolocaust victim (born 1912)
- Akos Armontb. 1953AUAustralian actor
- Ákos Inotayb. 1972HUHungarian actor
- Ákos-Daniel Morab. 1972RORomanian politician
- Akos Sandorb. 1977CACanadian weightlifter
- Akos Heinemannb. 2000HUresearcher
- Akos Varga-Szemesb. 2000researcher
- Akos VegvariSEresearcher ORCID id 0000-0002-1287-0906
- Akos MagyarUSPh.D. Princeton University 1996
- Akos DobayCHresearcher
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●
Attested in 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 187 | #38,064 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 74 | #9,366 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 48 | #13,962 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 37 | #35,842 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 32 | #1,820 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #15,355 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #14,230 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 26 | #21,511 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 25 | #3,789 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 24 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 62 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Akos?
- We estimate roughly 32 thousand people bear Akos (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Akos have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 32 thousand people bear Akos in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled akos.
- Where is Akos most common?
- Akos is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 310 people carrying it.
- How common is Akos compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Akos is the 71st most common given name of 18,750 given names recorded there.
- Is Akos a male or female name?
- Akos is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Akos” — the 71st most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.