Laszlo

given name · Hungarian · Latin script

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

Laszlo is a given name, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Hungarian form of Ladislaus, from Slavic elements meaning 'rule' + 'glory'.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary1 in 39◐
  • RORomania1 in 7.4K
  • ATAustria1 in 12K

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

≈258K ●

across 15 countries

#613 ●

of 16M given names

Sources
242 ●

102K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 39 ◐

Hungary

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled László in SI Slovenia, RS Serbia, NZ New Zealand and 1 more and Lászlo in SK Slovakia.

Meaning & origin●

Hungarian form of Ladislaus, from Slavic elements meaning 'rule' + 'glory'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Laszlo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HU Hungary#1253,223△41K rec.1 in 39253KLaszlo222
DE Germany—6,5316.4K rec.—1Laszlo122
GB United Kingdom—4,6004K rec.——Laszlo106
RO Romania#2404,2401.2K rec.——Laszlo70
US United States—2,48838K rec.1 in 134K2.5KLaszlo242
AU Australia—1,9242K rec.—3Laszlo82
CA Canada—1,5301.7K rec.—1Laszlo77
AT Austria#9911,379837 rec.—52Laszlo79
BE Belgium—928980 rec.—25Laszlo42
SE Sweden—894△275 rec.1 in 11K894Laszlo53
CH Switzerland—550376 rec.—71Laszlo50
FR France—470△9 rec.1 in 144K470—3

Roughly 253K people in Hungary bear this name (about 1 in 39). 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●

  • Hungarian4.2M99%
  • English19K1%
  • German6.7K1%
  • French4.6K1%
  • Spanish3.1K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hungarian4,180,45899%
English18,6491%
German6,7141%
French4,5611%
Spanish3,1111%

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◐

Laszlo is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name15K records spelled Laszlo15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Brazil

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written László, Làszlo, Làszlò, Lászlo, Laszló

  • a separate given name1.2K records spelled Laszlo9 spellings in the group

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

    Also written László, Làszlo, Làszló, Làszlò, Làszlô

  • Polish given name966 records spelled Laszlo7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United Kingdom, United States, Belgium

    Also written Laszló, László, Lászlö, Lászlò, Lászlo

  • Hindi given name891 records spelled Laszlo8 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written László, Läszlö, Lászlò, Lászlo, Laszló

  • Croatian surname543 records spelled Laszlo29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, United States, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Laslo, László, Ласло, Laszló, Lászlo

53 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.

Other recorded senses●

Laszlo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Hungarian form of Vladislas, from Slavic meaning “one who possesses glory”.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In English, Hungarian form of Ladislav; glorious ruler or glorious power.

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In Swedish, Laszlo (László) är en ungersk form av Ladislaus, den latiniserade formen av ett slaviskt namn (polskans Władysław och tjeckiskans Vladislavs). Namnet är sammansatt av ord som betyder ’härska’ och ’ära, rykte’.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In Hungarian, Glorious Ruler Or

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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●

010203040196019802000202037 · 2013

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Laszlo in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1957–2025
Yearrecords
195713
195820
195919
196020
196121
196216
196325
196416
196516
196624
196717
196818
196913
197018
197112
197213
19737
197410
19757
19766
19779
19787
19799
198012
19816
19825
19838
19848
19856
198610
198714
19898
199011
19916
199211
199310
19949
19967
199715
199811
19996
20008
200115
200213
200318
20049
200515
20069
200715
200821
200921
201013
201115
201218
201337
201423
201523
201628
201725
201835
201922
202028
202126
202226
202335
202428
202532

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 67 years between 1957–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

100012001400160018002000Ladislaus I of Hungary, b. 1046Ladislaus IV of Hungary, b. 1262Ladislaus the Posthumous, b. 1440László Moholy-Nagy, b. 1895László József Bíró, b. 1899László Kubala, b. 1927László Sólyom, b. 1942László Lovász, b. 1948László Krasznahorkai, b. 1954László Kövér, b. 1959

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 70 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Laszlo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.5K#6,427
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—894#1,831
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010856#28,001
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020811#30,753
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000808#27,945
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020626—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024470#1,980
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—448#2,716
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—296#6,688
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—228#3,795
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—113#4,854
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—108#26,184

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 · 319 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Laszlo?
We estimate roughly 258 thousand people bear Laszlo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Laszlo have the most bearers?
We estimate about 253 thousand people bear Laszlo in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled laszlo.
Where is Laszlo most common?
Laszlo is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 39 people carrying it.
How common is Laszlo compared with other names?
In Hungary, Laszlo is the most common given name of 18,750 given names recorded there.
Is Laszlo a male or female name?
Laszlo 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 Laszlo mean?
Recorded meaning: Hungarian form of Ladislaus, from Slavic elements meaning 'rule' + 'glory'.
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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, “Laszlo” — the most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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