The Fekete surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,027 people carried this name — #14,669 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 144,900 people counted. That is up 6% from 1,908 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Fekete surname
A male surname from Hungarian.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Fekete» (Slovak), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
163 people named Fekete live in Switzerland.
They live in 14 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Aargau.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 111 people named Fekete live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 82 people named Fekete.
38 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 13 départements, most often Paris.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 67 people named Fekete live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
96 people named Fekete is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Fekete in American newspapers,
1917–1923.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 4,803 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Fekete,
with a public archive behind them.
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György Fekete 1711–1788 · politician -
János Fekete 1741–1803 · poet -
Mihály Fekete 1784–1866 · Catholic priest -
Mihály Fekete 1820–1871 · poet -
Károly Fekete 1822–1889 · special education teacher
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 165 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Fekete.
- Feige 452 · U.S. census
- Feil 1,070 · U.S. census
- Feist 3,784 · U.S. census
- Feit 767 · U.S. census
- Feith 309 · U.S. census
- Feix 168 · U.S. census
- Felber 1,192 · U.S. census
- Feld 2,766 · U.S. census
- Felden 144 · U.S. census
- Felder 13,257 · U.S. census
- Feldman 23,356 · U.S. census
- Feldmann 2,812 · U.S. census
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