Csaba

given name · Hungarian · Latin script

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

Csaba is a given name, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 22nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Hungarian mythology; shepherd, wanderer.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary1 in 109◐
  • SKSlovakia1 in 1.1K
  • RORomania1 in 7K

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

≈102K ●

across 15 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
209 ●

30K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 109 ◐

Hungary

Spellings & scripts●

CsabaLatin · Hungarian●1.3M records
สะบ้าThai · Thai●618 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled สะบ้า in TH Thailand and Saba in IN India.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Hungarian mythology; shepherd, wanderer

Sources 1

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Where in the world●

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

Where Csaba is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HU Hungary#2289,617△12K rec.1 in 10990KCsaba209
US United States—4,6527.5K rec.1 in 72K4.7KCsaba183
RO Romania#2314,519960 rec.——Csaba54
FR France—3,2500 rec.1 in 21K3.3K—1
DE Germany—2,3822.3K rec.—listedCsaba115
GB United Kingdom—2,3561.6K rec.—3Csaba96
SK Slovakia#1682,291162 rec.——Csaba71
SE Sweden—1,822△108 rec.1 in 5.6K1.8KCsaba29
ES Spain—1,750△372 rec.1 in 29K1.8KCsaba43
TH Thailand—1,317431 rec.—#173,707สะบ้า40
IN India—677819 rec.—872Saba22
AT Austria—631398 rec.—24Csaba55

Roughly 90K people in Hungary bear this name (about 1 in 109). 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●

  • Hungarian1.3M98%
  • English7.9K1%
  • German3.2K1%
  • Slovak2.3K1%
  • French9211%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hungarian1,346,76098%
English7,9181%
German3,2371%
Slovak2,2831%
French9211%

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◐

Csaba is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian given name300 records spelled Csaba19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian

    Also written Čaba, Чаба, Chaba, CaBa, Цаба

  • Ukrainian given name199 records spelled Csaba8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Türkiye, United States

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Чаба, Chaba

36 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●

010020030020002005201020152020

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Csaba in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
1999107
2000104
2001104
2002106
2003108
2004110
2005113
2006113
2007124
2008144
2009149
2010160
2011174
2012177
2013187
2014196
2015204
2016205
2017208
2018212
2019215
2020216

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●

1940196019802000Csaba Fenyvesi, b. 1943Csaba Hegedűs, b. 1948Kőrösi Csaba, b. 1958Csaba Köves, b. 1966Csaba Pindroch, b. 1972Attila Mesterházy, b. 1974Csaba Molnár, b. 1975Csaba Balogh, b. 1987Csaba Burján, b. 1994János Hahn, b. 1995

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 45 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Csaba
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201692K#15
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201792K#15
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201592K#15
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)202590K#14
HU Hungarymagyarnevek — given names by decade1997640#31
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020529#19,790
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—314#3,799
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—238#4,204
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020216—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—208#3,399
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 newborn names (2020–2024)2024160#68
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—160#10,765

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 · 123 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Csaba?
We estimate roughly 102 thousand people bear Csaba (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Csaba have the most bearers?
We estimate about 90 thousand people bear Csaba in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled csaba.
Where is Csaba most common?
Csaba is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 109 people carrying it.
How common is Csaba compared with other names?
In Hungary, Csaba is the 22nd most common given name of 18,750 given names recorded there.
Is Csaba a male or female name?
Csaba 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 Csaba mean?
Recorded meaning: Hungarian mythology; shepherd, wanderer
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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, “Csaba” — the 22nd most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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