Nemeth

Nemeth is the 4,561st most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,549 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 39,600.

By the numbers

People: 7,549
Rank: 4,561st
How common: 1 in 39,600
Per 100,000: 2.5

Where the name comes from

From Hungarian Németh, from német (“German”). The system of braille is named for Abraham Nemeth.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Nemeth described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Nemeth

Miklós Németh (born 1948)Hungarian economist and politician
Krisztián Németh (born 1989)Hungarian association football player
Miklós Németh (born 1946)(1946–) Hungarian javelin thrower
Imre Németh (1917–1989)Hungarian hammer thrower
Angéla Németh (1946–2014)athletics competitor
László Németh (1901–1975)Hungarian writer, dentist
Ferenc Németh (born 1936)modern pentathlete
Zsanett Németh (1994–2026)Hungarian wrestler

People named Nemeth with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Nemeth

Nemec

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.