Gergely
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gergely is a given name, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 74th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from the Hungarian personal name Gergely.
- HUHungary1 in 332◐
- SKSlovakia1 in 4.5K
- ISIceland1 in 32K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈30K ●
- Sources
- 185 ●
- 1 in 332 ◐
across 10 countries
12K records
Official registry-verified
Hungary
Meaning & origin●
Borrowed from the Hungarian personal name Gergely.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Attested across 14 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 | #74 | 29,425△ | 8K rec. | 1 in 332 | 29K | Gergely | 185 |
| SK Slovakia | #494 | 546 | 78 rec. | — | — | Gergely | 47 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 525 | 325 rec. | — | listed | Gergely | 78 |
| RO Romania | #944 | 512 | 373 rec. | — | — | Gergely | 37 |
| US United States | — | 142 | 1.8K rec. | 1 in 2.3M | 686 | Gergely | 120 |
| BE Belgium | — | 121 | 135 rec. | — | 25 | Gergely | 18 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 95 | 54 rec. | — | 71 | Gergely | 26 |
| SE Sweden | — | 84△ | 29 rec. | 1 in 121K | 84 | Gergely | 14 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 67 | 25 rec. | — | 67 | Gergely | 24 |
| CA Canada | — | 60 | 84 rec. | — | — | Gergely | 27 |
| ES Spain | — | 56 | 82 rec. | 1 in 893K | 85 | Gergely | 26 |
| PL Poland | — | 48 | — | 1 in 798K | 48 | — | — |
Roughly 29K people in Hungary bear this name (about 1 in 332). 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●
- Hungarian434K99%
- English2.2K1%
- German1.1K1%
- Slovak5451%
- Spanish3161%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 433,828 | 99% |
| English | 2,222 | 1% |
| German | 1,072 | 1% |
| Slovak | 545 | 1% |
| Spanish | 316 | 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 | 26 |
| 2000 | 26 |
| 2001 | 25 |
| 2002 | 22 |
| 2003 | 22 |
| 2004 | 20 |
| 2005 | 20 |
| 2006 | 23 |
| 2007 | 27 |
| 2008 | 34 |
| 2009 | 31 |
| 2010 | 40 |
| 2011 | 42 |
| 2012 | 46 |
| 2013 | 53 |
| 2014 | 59 |
| 2015 | 61 |
| 2016 | 62 |
| 2017 | 61 |
| 2018 | 62 |
| 2019 | 63 |
| 2020 | 63 |
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●
- Gergely Csikyb. 1842HUHungarian dramatist (1842-1891)
- Andreo Csehb. 1895ROnot in their usual nameRomanian priest (1895–1979)
- Gergely Pongrátzb. 1932HUHungarian politician, revolutionist (1956)
- Gergely Kulcsárb. 1934HUHungarian athletics competitor (1934-2020)
- Gregory Nagyb. 1942HUnot in their usual nameAmerican classical scholar
- Gergely Pohárnokb. 1968HUHungarian cinematographer
- Gergely Karácsonyb. 1975HUHungarian politician, mayor of Budapest since 2019
- Gergely Kissb. 1977HUHungarian water polo player
- Gergely Rudolfb. 1985HUassociation football player
- Gergely Siklósib. 1997HUHungarian épée fencer
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 43 sources across 21 countries.
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 · 124 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Gergely?
- We estimate roughly 30 thousand people bear Gergely (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Gergely have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 29 thousand people bear Gergely in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled gergely.
- Where is Gergely most common?
- Gergely is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 332 people carrying it.
- How common is Gergely compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Gergely is the 74th most common given name of 18,750 given names recorded there.
- Is Gergely a male or female name?
- Gergely 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 Gergely mean?
- Recorded meaning: Borrowed from the Hungarian personal name Gergely.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gergely” — the 74th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.