Balazs

given name · Hungarian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Balazs is a given name, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Hungarian Balázs.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary1 in 132◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 133K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.2M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈75K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
173 ●

35K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 132 ◐

Hungary

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Balázs in SI Slovenia.

Meaning & origin●

Borrowed from Hungarian Balázs.

Sources 1

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Balazs is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HU Hungary#2674,303△16K rec.1 in 13274KBalazs173
GB United Kingdom—1,5521.7K rec.—3Balazs74
RO Romania#761704649 rec.——Balazs48
AU Australia—343885 rec.—1Balazs60
US United States—27112K rec.1 in 1.2M980Balazs153
BE Belgium—260330 rec.—33Balazs23
CH Switzerland—160168 rec.—94Balazs25
CA Canada—142518 rec.——Balazs43
ES Spain—94279 rec.1 in 532K146Balazs28
SE Sweden—8993 rec.1 in 115K89Balazs21
PL Poland—7144 rec.1 in 539K71Balazs15
BR Brazil—6891 rec.—49Balazs31

Roughly 74K people in Hungary bear this name (about 1 in 132). 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●

  • Hungarian1.1M99%
  • English2.6K1%
  • German1.6K1%
  • Spanish4381%
  • French4151%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hungarian1,064,66399%
English2,6081%
German1,5841%
Spanish4381%
French4151%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Balazs is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Danish given name773 records spelled Balazs7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

    Also written Balázs

  • a separate given name512 records spelled Balazs6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Romania, Switzerland

    Also written Balázs, Balazś, Bálazs, Balàzs, Balãzs

  • Hindi given name363 records spelled Balazs4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Belgium

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Balázs

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

02040602000200520102015202060 · 2017

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Balazs in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199926
200025
200129
200229
200328
200427
200530
200631
200734
200840
200944
201046
201150
201252
201353
201454
201556
201656
201760
201859
201953
202051

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●

190019201940196019802000Balázs Lengyel, b. 1918Balázs Horváth, b. 1942Balázs Taróczy, b. 1954Balázs Hidvéghi, b. 1970Balázs Kiss, b. 1972Balázs Dzsudzsák, b. 1986Balázs Orbán, b. 1986Balázs Baji, b. 1989Balázs Megyeri, b. 1990Balázs Balogh, b. 1990

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 35 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Balazs
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010980#25,272
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000972#24,180
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020970#26,496
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020271#31,546
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—212#4,592
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—146#21,007
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—146#20,906
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—94#16,616
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—81#8,543
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—76#10,276
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—72#9,497
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—62#22,629

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 · 81 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Balazs?
We estimate roughly 75 thousand people bear Balazs (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Balazs have the most bearers?
We estimate about 74 thousand people bear Balazs in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled balazs.
Where is Balazs most common?
Balazs is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 132 people carrying it.
How common is Balazs compared with other names?
In Hungary, Balazs is the 26th most common given name of 18,750 given names recorded there.
Is Balazs a male or female name?
Balazs 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 Balazs mean?
Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Hungarian Balázs.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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.

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, “Balazs” — the 26th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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