Names of Hungary HU

KSH — births by given name (2024) records Luca as the commonest given name in Hungary; the names that most distinguish Hungary from the rest of the world are Nagy, Kovacs and Szabo.

Written in Hungarian.

Population
9.8M
Official registers
6
Name forms recorded
28K
BBuilt from 6 official registers (2024), 27,918 name forms in our corpus.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

fewerlarger share
Where the names most characteristic of Hungary are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Hungary included.

How names work in Hungary

Names in Hungary follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

The most common names in Hungary

Counts children born in the year · authority tier 1

This register publishes counts, not ranks; the numbering is the order of its own figures.

KSH — births by given name, 2024 — 43 given names counted over children born that year, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Luca824—
2Hanna808—
3Zoé786—
4Anna74218
5Emma720—
6Léna683—
7Olívia646—
8Laura482—
9Alíz470—
10Kamilla460—
11Sára434—
12Lili426—
13Szofia426—
14Flóra424—
15Mira420—
16Boglárka418—
17Lilien415—
18Zsófia407—
19Lara401—
20Adél375—

Where the two lists disagree

25 of KSH — births by given name's top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

KSH — births by given name 2024Across all recordsdominik: 1 → 87 · ranks lower across all records1. dominik87olivér: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. olivérnot rankedlevente: 3 → 58 · ranks lower across all records3. levente58marcell: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. marcellnot rankedmilán: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. milánnot rankedmáté: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. máténot rankedbence: 7 → 42 · ranks lower across all records7. bence42noel: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. noelnot rankeddániel: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. dánielnot rankedbenett: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. benettnot rankedbotond: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. botondnot rankedzalán: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. zalánnot rankedzsombor: 13 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country13. zsombornot rankedáron: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. áronnot rankedádám: 15 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country15. ádámnot rankeddávid: 16 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country16. dávidnot rankednolen: 17 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country17. nolennot rankedbenedek: 18 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country18. benedeknot rankedbarnabás: 19 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country19. barnabásnot rankedábel: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. ábelnot rankedbalázs: 21 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country21. balázsnot rankedmárk: 22 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country22. márknot rankedzente: 23 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country23. zentenot rankednimród: 24 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country24. nimródnot rankedkornél: 25 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country25. kornélnot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
KSH — births by given name, 2024 on the left; every record we hold for Hungary on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Hungary

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Hungary holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

LaszloJozsefIstvanJanosZoltanGaborSandorFerencAttilaKatalinTamasEvaZsoltZsuzsannaAnnaTiborAndrasIlonaCsabaMargitImreLajosGyorgyBalazsIldikoAndreaGyulaErikaIrenKrisztinaAdamBenceKrisztianEszterPeterBelaJuliannaNorbertSzilviaGergoEditAnikoMateLeventeAnitaBalintSzabolcsRolandTimeaPiroskaZsofiaIbolyaAkosTundeMarkGergelyGizellaRichardTereziaAgnes
Sized by how much of the difference between Hungary's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Over time

AnnaHannaBoglárkaZsófiaLili200020241,856
KSH — births by given name, 2000–2024 (25 years). The line is that register's own figure for each year — not a total across registers, which would count the same people twice. The publisher labels this series “flow”.

Up to five names at a time.

Scripts & spelling

Laszlogiven name●
Istvangiven name●
Jozsefgiven name●
Nagysurname●
Kovacssurname●
The best-attested names in Hungary, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • KSH — births by given name2024headline (given)

    Központi Statisztikai Hivatal (KSH / Hungarian Central Statistical Office). Counts: newborns. given. 50 forms. 2000–2024.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-backfilled registry stub (2026-06-05); verify publisher/URL. 2,267 rows, name_types=['given'], evidence=['count']. source note: births_per_year_ksh

    Last verified 2026-06-05.

  • magyarnevek — given names by decade1997

    Hungarian Ministry of the Interior (via magyarnevek.hu). Counts: residents. given. 100 forms. 1950–1997.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-backfilled registry stub (2026-06-05); verify publisher/URL. 1,200 rows, name_types=['given'], evidence=['count']. source note: magyarnevek_decade_avg

    Last verified 2026-06-05.

  • magyarnevek.hu — Top-100 newborn given names 2025 (M+F)2025not a population count

    Belügyminisztérium Nyilvántartások (Interior Ministry civil registry). Counts: not recorded. given. 100 forms. 2025. Licence: Open data Hungary (Interior Ministry source, mirrored).

    What we know about this register

    2025 newborn (újszülött) given names, top-100 M + top-100 F with counts. magyarnevek.hu mirrors the Interior Ministry kozerdeku_ujszulottutonev XLSX; verified identical to official data for 2000/2024. Only 2025 is harvested here — 2000–2024 already covered by hu-nyilvantarto-newborns / hu-ksh-births-utonevek, and pre-2000 by hu-magyarnevek-decades. Used because nyilvantarto.hu is unreachable (geo-blocked) from our infra. Distinct from the 2025 *stock* given-name and birth-surname registers (hu-nyilvantarto-given-names / hu-nyilvantarto-surnames).

    Last verified 2026-06-02.

  • Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)2025not a population count

    Belügyminisztérium / Hungarian Ministry of Interior (civil registry). Counts: not recorded. given. 100 forms. 2011–2025. Licence: Open data Hungary.

    What we know about this register

    Top-100 male/female given names in Hungarian civil registry as of Jan 1 each year. 9-column side-by-side M/F layout: rank, name, count-as-first, count-as-second. Hungarian name order: FAMILY GIVEN — names here are given names only. NO LIVE PER-NAME EXISTENCE-COUNT TOOL FOUND (2026-08-06): nyilvantarto.hu, magyarnevek.hu and KSH.hu expose only static top-100 XLSX downloads (already cataloged) — none has an interactive box where you type a name and see a holder count. Adjacent but non-matching: utonevkereso.nytud.hu (HUN-REN Institute for Linguistics) is a live search over ~4,700 legally approved given names returning etymology/approval-status/gender, not a holder count, and is an academic-institute tool rather than the civil registry itself; csaladnevatlasz.hu/nevkereso is a historical (1720s-census) surname-frequency map, not current registry data. Neither qualifies as a per-name existence oracle.

    Last verified 2026-05-09.

  • Nyilvántartó — Top-100 newborn names (2020–2024)2024not a population count

    Belügyminisztérium / Hungarian Ministry of Interior (civil registry). Counts: not recorded. given. 100 forms. 2010–2024. Licence: Open data Hungary.

    What we know about this register

    Top-100 male/female newborn given names per birth year. Same 9-column M/F layout as given names register file. The {year} in filename refers to the release year; birth year is one year prior.

    Last verified 2026-05-09.

  • Nyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025)2025not a population count

    Belügyminisztérium / Hungarian Ministry of Interior (civil registry). Counts: not recorded. surname. 100 forms. 2011–2025. Licence: Open data Hungary.

    What we know about this register

    Top-100 birth surnames (születési családi név) in Hungarian civil registry. 4-column layout: date, rank, surname, count. Gender-neutral.

    Last verified 2026-05-09.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Hungary?
Dominik, according to KSH — births by given name (2024), with 1,267 bearers recorded among boys.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Hungary?
Because they count different people. KSH — births by given name (2024) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Dominik. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Laszlo. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Hungary”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/HU (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from KSH — births by given name.