Géza
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Hungary (Nyilvántartó, 2025): listed as male
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Nyilvántartó, 2025
/ɡeːzɒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Géza is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Handsome young man.
- HUHungary1 in 550(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 894K
- DEGermany≈1 in 999K
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)
- Record sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- 1 in 550 (inferred from the name graph)
17,777 people, 2025
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Geza in US United States, DE Germany.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Handsome young man.
Cited for this meaning 2
- The African book of names
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Géza 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #204 | 17,777 | 1 in 550 | 18K | Géza | 82 |
| US United States | — | 372 | 1 in 894K | 368 | Geza | 103 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 124 | 1 in 17K | 124 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 94 | 1 in 109K | 94 | Géza | 6 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 999K | 1 | Geza | 74 |
| HR Croatia | — | 50 | 1 in 85K | 50 | — | 1 |
| SK Slovakia | #832 | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 196K | — | Géza | 14 |
17,777 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; SURS — resident population given names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)Géza 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: of uncertain derivation, said to be from a medieval honorific title of Turkic origin.
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)- Gejzab. 940not in their usual nameGrand Prince of the Hungarians (c.940–997)
- Géza I of Hungaryb. 1040HUKing of Hungary from 1074 to 1077
- Géza II of Hungaryb. 1130HUKing of Hungary and Croatia (1130-1162)
- Géza Gárdonyib. 1863HUHungarian writer (1863–1922)
- Géza Lakatosb. 1890HUHungarian general (1890–1967)
- Géza von Bolváryb. 1897HUHungarian actor, filmmaker (1897–1961)
- Géza von Radványib. 1907HUfilm director (1907–1986)
- Géza Andab. 1921HUSwiss pianist and conductor of Hungarian birth (1921-1976)
- Géza Alföldyb. 1935HUHungaro-german historian of classical antiquity (1935-2011)
- Röhrig Gézab. 1967HUHungarian actor, author, poet, singer
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Géza mean, and where does it come from?
- Handsome young man. Recorded by The African book of names and Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft).
- Is Géza a male or female name?
- Géza is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Hungary (Nyilvántartó, 2025): listed as male; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- How do you pronounce Géza?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡeːzɒ/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- In which country does Géza have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Géza, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled géza.
- Where is Géza most common?
- Géza is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 550 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Géza?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 17,777 people named Géza in 2025, about 1 in 550 residents.
- How common is Géza compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Géza is the 204th most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Géza?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%A9zaThe 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, “Géza” — the 204th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.