Ferenc
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ferenc is a given name, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Libre.
- HUHungary1 in 80◐
- RORomania1 in 19K
- USUnited States1 in 564K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈124K ●
- Sources
- 201 ●
- 1 in 80 ◐
across 13 countries
26K records
Official registry-verified
Hungary
Meaning & origin●
Libre
Sources 1
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Attested across 15 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 | #11 | 122,154△ | 18K rec. | 1 in 80 | 122K | Ferenc | 201 |
| RO Romania | #434 | 1,661 | 351 rec. | — | — | Ferenc | 49 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 985 | 618 rec. | — | — | Ferenc | 71 |
| RS Serbia | #435 | 677 | 254 rec. | — | — | Ferenc | 39 |
| SE Sweden | — | 591△ | 73 rec. | 1 in 17K | 591 | — | 41 |
| US United States | — | 590 | 5.3K rec. | 1 in 564K | 590 | Ferenc | 162 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 226 | 86 rec. | — | 15 | Ferenc | 28 |
| CA Canada | — | 198 | 218 rec. | — | 1 | Ferenc | 43 |
| BE Belgium | — | 192 | 196 rec. | — | 18 | Ferenc | 21 |
| ES Spain | — | 118 | 188 rec. | 1 in 424K | 118 | Ferenc | 37 |
| PL Poland | — | 110 | — | 1 in 348K | 2.6K | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 71 | — | 1 in 83K | 71 | — | — |
Roughly 122K people in Hungary bear this name (about 1 in 80). 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●
- Hungarian2.1M99%
- English9.2K1%
- German4.1K1%
- Croatian2.2K1%
- Spanish1.1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 2,128,155 | 99% |
| English | 9,241 | 1% |
| German | 4,120 | 1% |
| Croatian | 2,172 | 1% |
| Spanish | 1,078 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 394 |
| 2000 | 390 |
| 2001 | 382 |
| 2002 | 379 |
| 2003 | 369 |
| 2004 | 361 |
| 2005 | 356 |
| 2006 | 360 |
| 2007 | 353 |
| 2008 | 355 |
| 2009 | 351 |
| 2010 | 353 |
| 2011 | 355 |
| 2012 | 361 |
| 2013 | 351 |
| 2014 | 342 |
| 2015 | 342 |
| 2016 | 338 |
| 2017 | 335 |
| 2018 | 325 |
| 2019 | 323 |
| 2020 | 313 |
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●
- Francis II Rákóczib. 1676HUnot in their usual nameleader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburgs in 1703–1711
- Franz Lisztb. 1811ATnot in their usual nameHungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist (1811-1886)
- Franz Lehárb. 1870HUnot in their usual nameKomárom-born Austrian music composer (1870–1948)
- Ferenc Molnárb. 1878HUHungarian-born dramatist and novelist (1878-1952)
- Bela Lugosib. 1882USnot in their usual nameHungarian-American actor (1882–1956)
- Ferenc Szálasib. 1897HUHungarian fascist politician, executed for war crimes (1897-1946)
- Ferenc Puskásb. 1927HUHungarian association football player (1927–2006)
- Ferenc Mádlb. 1931HUHungarian politician (1931-2011)
- Frank Darabontb. 1959USnot in their usual nameAmerican film director, screenwriter and producer
- Ferenc Gyurcsanyb. 1961HUPrime Minister of Hungary from 2004 to 2009
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 66 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2025 | 122K | #11 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.6K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.6K | #949 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.5K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.5K | #1,000 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 1.8K | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1.7K | #713 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 1.7K | #715 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 591 | #2,473 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 590 | #18,182 |
| HU Hungary | magyarnevek — given names by decade | 1997 | 526 | #35 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 492 | #43,811 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 · 230 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ferenc?
- We estimate roughly 124 thousand people bear Ferenc (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ferenc have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 122 thousand people bear Ferenc in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ferenc.
- Where is Ferenc most common?
- Ferenc is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 80 people carrying it.
- How common is Ferenc compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Ferenc is the 11th most common given name of 18,750 given names recorded there.
- Is Ferenc a male or female name?
- Ferenc 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.
- What does the name Ferenc mean?
- Recorded meaning: Libre
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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, “Ferenc” — the 11th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.