Imre
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Imre is a given name, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 23rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from the personal name Imre, Hungarian equivalent of Amery.
- HUHungary1 in 142◐
- RORomania1 in 23K
- USUnited States1 in 572K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈71K ●
- Sources
- 195 ●
- 1 in 142 ◐
across 11 countries
19K records
Official registry-verified
Hungary
Meaning & origin●
from the personal name Imre, Hungarian equivalent of Amery.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 6 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 | #23 | 68,891△ | 11K rec. | 1 in 142 | 69K | Imre | 195 |
| RO Romania | #480 | 1,388 | 395 rec. | — | — | Imre | 46 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 702 | 420 rec. | — | listed | Imre | 81 |
| SE Sweden | — | 589△ | 52 rec. | 1 in 17K | 589 | — | 28 |
| US United States | — | 582 | 5.6K rec. | 1 in 572K | 582 | Imre | 151 |
| NO Norway | — | 527△ | 33 rec. | 1 in 10K | 1.8K | — | 20 |
| RS Serbia | #584 | 407 | 135 rec. | — | — | Imre | 30 |
| EE Estonia | #820 | 363 | 193 rec. | — | 626 | Imre | 42 |
| CA Canada | — | 205 | 236 rec. | — | 1 | Imre | 36 |
| BR Brazil | — | 143 | 49 rec. | — | 23 | Imre | 22 |
| AR Argentina | — | 132 | 122 rec. | — | 5 | Imre | 19 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 124 | 57 rec. | — | 54 | Imre | 31 |
Roughly 69K people in Hungary bear this name (about 1 in 142). 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●
- Hungarian1.2M98%
- English8.8K1%
- German2.6K1%
- Norwegian Bokmål1.8K1%
- Dutch1.3K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 1,208,577 | 98% |
| English | 8,815 | 1% |
| German | 2,558 | 1% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 1,814 | 1% |
| Dutch | 1,326 | 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●
Imre is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, a male given name, equivalent to German Emmerich or English Emery
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Imre är en ungersk form av Emmerich (→ Emrik). Kända namnbärare är den ungerske politikern Imre Nagy (1896–1958) och författaren och Nobelpristagaren Imre Kertész (1929–2016).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Gran rey
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Hungarian form of the Germanic name Emeric or Emmerich . This seems to be a byform of HENRY , but it has possibly also absorbed a rarer name composed of the elements amal work + r c rule. St Emeric (1007–31) was the son and heir of St Stephen of Hungary. In spite of his comparatively short life, he was canonized together with his father in 1063.
as a word
In Turkish, a male given name which means “bard”, “poet”, “friend”, “lover”, equivalent to Emre
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 |
|---|---|
| 1961 | 5 |
| 1979 | 7 |
| 1989 | 4 |
| 1995 | 4 |
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2000 | 7 |
| 2001 | 9 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2003 | 15 |
| 2004 | 11 |
| 2005 | 17 |
| 2006 | 20 |
| 2007 | 19 |
| 2008 | 22 |
| 2009 | 34 |
| 2010 | 20 |
| 2011 | 25 |
| 2012 | 28 |
| 2013 | 31 |
| 2014 | 20 |
| 2015 | 20 |
| 2016 | 18 |
| 2017 | 20 |
| 2018 | 17 |
| 2019 | 19 |
| 2020 | 11 |
| 2021 | 13 |
| 2022 | 13 |
| 2023 | 15 |
| 2024 | 17 |
| 2025 | 11 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 31 years between 1961–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Emeric, King of Hungaryb. 1174HUnot in their usual nameHungarian king (1174-1204)
- Imre Thökölyb. 1657HURuler of Transylvania (1657-1705)
- Imre Madáchb. 1820HUHungarian writer (1823-1864)
- Imre Nagyb. 1896HUHungarian politician (1896-1958)
- Emeric Pressburgerb. 1902GBnot in their usual nameHungarian-British screenwriter, director and producer (1902–1988)
- Imi Lichtenfeldb. 1910ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli Krav Maga practitioner (1910–1998)
- Imre Némethb. 1917HUHungarian hammer thrower (1917–1989)
- Imre Lakatosb. 1922GBHungarian philosopher of mathematics and science (1922-1974)
- Imre Kertészb. 1929HUHungarian author (1929–2016)
- Emerich Jeneib. 1937ROnot in their usual nameRomanian footballer (1937–2025)
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 68 sources across 31 countries.
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 376 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Imre?
- We estimate roughly 71 thousand people bear Imre (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Imre have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 69 thousand people bear Imre in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled imre.
- Where is Imre most common?
- Imre is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 142 people carrying it.
- How common is Imre compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Imre is the 23rd most common given name of 18,750 given names recorded there.
- Is Imre a male or female name?
- Imre 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 Imre mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the personal name Imre, Hungarian equivalent of Amery.
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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, “Imre” — the 23rd most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.