Gabor
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gabor is a given name, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 9th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from the personal name Gabor, Hungarian form of Gabriel.
- HUHungary1 in 64◐
- RORomania1 in 18K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 100K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈154K ●
- Sources
- 231 ●
- 1 in 64 ◐
across 11 countries
33K records
Official registry-verified
Hungary
Meaning & origin●
from the personal name Gabor, Hungarian form of Gabriel.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #9 | 152,049△ | 9.7K rec. | 1 in 64 | 152K | Gabor | 231 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,077 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Gabor | 100 |
| RO Romania | #414 | 1,789 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Gabor | 56 |
| FR France | — | 1,523 | 2.3K rec. | — | 26 | Gabor | 139 |
| US United States | — | 1,170 | 11K rec. | 1 in 284K | 1.9K | Gabor | 222 |
| BE Belgium | — | 547 | 628 rec. | — | 34 | Gabor | 36 |
| CA Canada | — | 531 | 525 rec. | — | — | Gabor | 76 |
| SE Sweden | — | 365△ | 108 rec. | 1 in 28K | 365 | — | 41 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 343 | 232 rec. | — | 95 | Gabor | 45 |
| RS Serbia | #687 | 300 | 107 rec. | — | — | Gabor | 27 |
| PH Philippines | — | 262 | 2.4K rec. | — | — | Gabor | 24 |
| ES Spain | — | 215 | 1.3K rec. | 1 in 233K | 507 | Gabor | 41 |
Roughly 152K people in Hungary bear this name (about 1 in 64). 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●
- Hungarian2.3M99%
- English12K1%
- German7.2K1%
- Spanish2.1K1%
- French1.8K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 2,320,855 | 99% |
| English | 11,559 | 1% |
| German | 7,201 | 1% |
| Spanish | 2,054 | 1% |
| French | 1,820 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Gabor is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Eva, Zsa Zsa, US entertainers
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Dennis, Hungarian-born British
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, physicist (Nobel 1971)
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
(Gran Canaria)
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Serbo-Croatian, hideous or disgusting person or thing; eyesore, freak, monstrosity
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1914 | 6 |
| 1917 | 5 |
| 1918 | 5 |
| 1923 | 5 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 7 |
| 1959 | 7 |
| 1961 | 8 |
| 1962 | 11 |
| 1963 | 10 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1967 | 5 |
| 1968 | 6 |
| 1969 | 6 |
| 1970 | 9 |
| 1971 | 6 |
| 1972 | 9 |
| 1975 | 7 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 2004 | 5 |
| 2011 | 5 |
| 2020 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 23 years between 1914–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Gabriel Bethlenb. 1580ROnot in their usual nameElected King of Hungary, Prince of Transylvania and Hungarian Protestant military leader (1580–1629)
- Gabriel Bathoryb. 1589ROnot in their usual namePrince of Transylvania (1589-1613)
- Gábor Szegőb. 1895HUHungarian mathematician
- Gábor Pogányb. 1915HUHungarian cinematographer (1915–1999)
- Gabor Matéb. 1944HUHungarian-Canadian physician (1944–)
- Gábor Csupób. 1952HUAmerican-Hungarian animator (1952–)
- Gábor Tardosb. 1964HUHungarian mathematician
- Gábor Királyb. 1976HUHungarian association football player
- Gábor Vonab. 1978HUHungarian politician
- Freddieb. 1990HUnot in their usual nameHungarian singer (born 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 61 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,395 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #14,931 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,449 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.4K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.4K | #2,099 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.3K | #2,313 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #11,071 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 507 | #7,906 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 507 | #7,896 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 394 | #2,955 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 365 | #3,436 |
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 · 190 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Gabor?
- We estimate roughly 154 thousand people bear Gabor (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Gabor have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 152 thousand people bear Gabor in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled gabor.
- Where is Gabor most common?
- Gabor is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 64 people carrying it.
- How common is Gabor compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Gabor is the 9th most common given name of 18,750 given names recorded there.
- Is Gabor a male or female name?
- Gabor 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 Gabor mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the personal name Gabor, Hungarian form of Gabriel.
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About this data
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, “Gabor” — the 9th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.