Balint

given name · Hungarian · Latin script

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

Balint is a given name, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 65th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Hungarian Bálint.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary1 in 281◐
  • RORomania1 in 61K
  • ISIceland1 in 117K

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

≈35K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
142 ●

6.3K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 281 ◐

Hungary

Meaning & origin●

Borrowed from Hungarian Bálint.

Sources 1

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Balint is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HU Hungary#6534,819△2.2K rec.1 in 28135KBalint142
RO Romania#940517625 rec.——Balint50
GB United Kingdom—218197 rec.—listedBalint47
US United States—1321.7K rec.1 in 2.5M1.7KBalint106
BR Brazil—81161 rec.—94Balint35
BE Belgium—7593 rec.—18Balint9
IT Italy—60203 rec.——Balint15
AR Argentina—44350 rec.—32Balint18
SE Sweden—4337 rec.1 in 237K92Balint13
DK Denmark—39—1 in 150K47——
PL Poland—36—1 in 1.1M88——
ES Spain—30362 rec.1 in 1.7M266Balint20

Roughly 35K people in Hungary bear this name (about 1 in 281). 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●

  • Hungarian492K99%
  • English1.1K1%
  • German8231%
  • Spanish3291%
  • Ukrainian2601%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hungarian492,25599%
English1,1001%
German8231%
Spanish3291%
Ukrainian2601%

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◐

Balint is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name22K records spelled Balint12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Germany, Austria

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Bálint, Bàlint, Balinț

  • French given name1.8K records spelled Balint4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Bálint, Bàlint

  • Ukrainian surname1.1K records spelled Balint10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Балінт, Балинт, Bálint

  • Hungarian given name853 records spelled Balint6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hungarian, Slovak, Czech

    Also written Bálint, Bàlint

  • a separate given name662 records spelled Balint4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Romania

    Also written Bálint, Bãlint, Bàlint

  • Danish given name445 records spelled Balint7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Bálint

49 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●

0102030402000200520102015202034 · 2018

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Balint in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199920
200019
200118
200217
200317
200418
200516
200616
200715
200821
200920
201022
201122
201225
201326
201428
201529
201629
201730
201834
201933
202032

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●

19201940196019802000Ștefan Balint, b. 1926George Balint, b. 1961Gavril Balint, b. 1963Becca Balint, b. 1968Benjamin Balint, b. 1976László Balint, b. 1979Crystal Balint, b. 1981Camelia Hotea, b. 1984Valentin Balint, b. 1994

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 39 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Balint
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.7K#16,687
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.7K#15,775
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.6K#17,033
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—266#13,289
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—266#13,238
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021135#6,076
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020132#48,183
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021113—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—94#66,338
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—92#7,737
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202688—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—88#33,072

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 100 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Balint?
We estimate roughly 35 thousand people bear Balint (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Balint have the most bearers?
We estimate about 35 thousand people bear Balint in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled balint.
Where is Balint most common?
Balint is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 281 people carrying it.
How common is Balint compared with other names?
In Hungary, Balint is the 65th most common given name of 18,750 given names recorded there.
Is Balint a male or female name?
Balint 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 Balint mean?
Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Hungarian Bálint.
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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, “Balint” — the 65th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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