Fodor
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Hungarian: frill, ruffle (clothing)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈfoʊdɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fodor is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 29th most common surname.
- HUHungary≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 158K
- RORomania≈1 in 4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Hungary (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 158 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
frill, ruffle (clothing)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Fodor is read(measured from records)
Fodor is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English48%
Eugene, travel author
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
A derivative of ...; first attested Roger le Fodere 1327 SRSf; Walter Fodere, Fodier 1327, 1332 SRSx
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- Hungarian23%
frill, ruffle (clothing)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fodor counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #29 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 22K | Fodor | 158 |
| RO Romania | #408 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Fodor | 50 |
| US United States | — | 2,112 | 1 in 158K | 2.1K | Fodor | 145 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Fodor | 3 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 99K | listed | Fodor | 15 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Fodor | 24 |
| HR Croatia | — | 211 | 1 in 20K | 211 | — | — |
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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Fodor is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
De pelo rizado
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Russian, var of Feodor.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In ang, fodder
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Josephine Fodorb. 1789FRFrench opera singer
- Nandor Fodorb. 1895USHungarian psychologist (1895–1964)
- Ladislas Fodorb. 1898HUHungarian novelist, playwright and screenwriter (1898-1978)
- Eugene Fodorb. 1905USAmerican writer and publisher (1905-1991)
- Gábor Béla Fodorb. 1915HUchemist from Hungary
- Jerry Fodorb. 1935USAmerican philosopher (1935–2017)
- Eugene Fodorb. 1950USAmerican musician (1950–2011)
- Gábor Fodorb. 1962HUHungarian jurist and liberal politician
- Rajmund Fodorb. 1976HUHungarian water polo player and coach
- Zoltán Fodorb. 1985HUOlympic wrestler
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)
Attested in 32 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Fodor mean, and where does it come from?
- frill, ruffle (clothing) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Fodor?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfoʊdɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Fodor have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.8 thousand people named Fodor in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fodor.
- How common is the name Fodor?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,112 people named Fodor in 2010, about 1 in 158 thousand residents.
- How common is Fodor compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Fodor is the 29th most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fodorThe 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, “Fodor” — the 29th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.