Gábor
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Gabriel
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gábor is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 19th most common given name.
- HUHungary1 in 64(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 16K
- ATAustria≈1 in 18K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Hungary (measured from records)
- Sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- 1 in 64 (inferred from the name graph)
152,049 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name, equivalent to English Gabriel
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gábor counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
152,049 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gábor is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Hungarian form of GABRIEL . It is particularly popular in Hungary because of the legend that in the year 1001 the archangel Gabriel advised Pope Sylvester II to send a holy crown to King (later St) Stephen ( ISTVÁN ), thus recognizing Hungary as a Christian sovereign state.
as a word
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2025 | 152K | #6 |
| HU Hungary | magyarnevek — given names by decade | 1997 | 1.1K | #13 |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2000 | 1K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2001 | 948 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2003 | 837 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2004 | 836 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2002 | 827 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2005 | 754 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2006 | 751 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2007 | 692 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2008 | 660 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2009 | 609 | — |
Reference works 4
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gábor mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Gabriel Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Gábor have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 152 thousand people named Gábor, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gábor.
- Where is Gábor most common?
- Gábor is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 64 people carrying it.
- Is Gábor a male or female name?
- Gábor 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 are other forms of the name Gábor?
- In the etymology graph, Gabriel, Gabe and Cebrail are forms of the same name in other languages; Gabi is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Gábor?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 152,049 people named Gábor in 2025, about 1 in 64 residents.
- How common is Gábor compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Gábor is the 19th most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%A1borThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Gábor” — the 19th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.