Zoltan

given name · Hungarian · Latin script

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

Zoltan is a given name, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 5th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Zoltan är ett ungerskt namn av ovisst ursprung, möjligen av ett turkiskt ord för en titel, sammanhängande med ordet sultan.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary1 in 51◐
  • SKSlovakia1 in 585
  • RSSerbia1 in 1.5K

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

≈196K ●

across 11 countries

#873 ●

of 16M given names

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
262 ●

74K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 51 ◐

Hungary

Spellings & scripts●

ZoltanLatin · Hungarian●3M records
ЗолтанCyrillic · Ukrainian●15K records
โซลทานThai · Thai●5 records

Locally spelled Zoltán in SK Slovakia, DE Germany, AT Austria and 2 more and Золтан in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, FI Finland and 1 more.

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●

recorded in Swedish

Zoltan är ett ungerskt namn av ovisst ursprung, möjligen av ett turkiskt ord för en titel, sammanhängande med ordet sultan.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Zoltan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HU Hungary#5192,611△25K rec.1 in 51193KZoltan225
UA Ukraine#28620,39721K rec.——Золтан19
RO Romania#2085,6181.3K rec.——Zoltan77
CZ Czechia#5174,760184 rec.—771Zoltan54
SK Slovakia#974,175482 rec.——Zoltán83
GB United Kingdom—3,1401.7K rec.—listedZoltan118
RS Serbia#1892,1761.2K rec.—listedZoltan42
US United States—2,01514K rec.1 in 165K2KZoltan262
DE Germany—1,0871.1K rec.—listedZoltán56
RU Russia—991598 rec.——Золтан61
CA Canada—818766 rec.—6Zoltan88
SE Sweden—582△163 rec.1 in 18K582Zoltan46

Roughly 193K people in Hungary bear this name (about 1 in 51). 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●

  • Hungarian3M98%
  • English17K1%
  • German6.3K1%
  • Czech4.5K1%
  • Ukrainian3.8K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hungarian2,961,30198%
English17,3601%
German6,3441%
Czech4,5171%
Ukrainian3,8301%

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◐

Zoltan is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name29K records spelled Zoltan5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Zoltàn

  • Danish given name1.0K records spelled Zoltan7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Iceland, United States

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Icelandic

    Also written Zoltán, Zoltàn

  • Hindi given name822 records spelled Zoltan4 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Zoltán

  • a separate given name791 records spelled Zoltan7 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Zoltán, Zóltan, Zolṭan, Zoltàn, Zoltân

43 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●

010203019201940196019802000202025 · 1967

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Zoltan in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1912–2025
Yearrecords
19127
191310
19146
191514
191610
191711
19186
191912
192018
19219
19229
192313
192412
192511
19268
19279
19287
192910
19309
193111
19328
19336
19386
19476
19488
19539
195715
19588
195913
196024
196124
196218
196317
196418
196512
196612
196725
196820
196919
197015
197111
197214
197311
19747
197511
197615
197712
19789
19797
19806
19815
198210
19848
198511
19878
198810
19906
19917
199212
199311
199511
19966
19978
19989
199911
200016
20017
200210
20039
200410
200511
20069
200710
200812
200914
201014
201111
201213
201317
201413
201515
201616
201714
201814
20199
202010
202110
202213
202310
202411
20255

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 91 years between 1912–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

500100015002000Zoltán of Hungary, b. 896Zoltán Kodály, b. 1882Zoltán Tildy, b. 1889Zoltán Fábri, b. 1917Zoltán Czibor, b. 1929Zoltán Latinovits, b. 1931Zoltán Kocsis, b. 1952Zoli Ádok, b. 1976Zoltán Gera, b. 1979Zoltán Stieber, b. 1988

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 60 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Zoltan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202K#7,521
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—582#2,504
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020418—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—406#2,893
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—293#6,739
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—253#3,480
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021188#1,205
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010162#109,258
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020159#116,252
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021152—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—128#4,534
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—126#23,445

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 · 268 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Zoltan?
We estimate roughly 196 thousand people bear Zoltan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Zoltan have the most bearers?
We estimate about 193 thousand people bear Zoltan in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled zoltan.
Where is Zoltan most common?
Zoltan is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 51 people carrying it.
How common is Zoltan compared with other names?
In Hungary, Zoltan is the 5th most common given name of 18,750 given names recorded there.
Is Zoltan a male or female name?
Zoltan 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 Zoltan mean?
Recorded meaning: Zoltan är ett ungerskt namn av ovisst ursprung, möjligen av ett turkiskt ord för en titel, sammanhängande med ordet sultan.
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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, “Zoltan” — the 5th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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