Horváth
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/horvaːt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Horváth is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 5th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From horvát (“Croatian”).
- HUHungary≈1 in 344(inferred from the name graph)
- SKSlovakia1 in 360
- CZCzechia1 in 2.4K
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 (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 288 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 344 (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Horvath in HU Hungary, US United States, SK Slovakia and 4 more.
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)
From horvát (“Croatian”).
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Horváth 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 | #5 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 344 | 193K | Horvath | 202 |
| US United States | — | 15,302 | 1 in 22K | 16K | Horvath | 288 |
| SK Slovakia | #6 | 15,092 | 1 in 360 | 15K | Horvath | 104 |
| CZ Czechia | #127 | 4,549 | 1 in 2.4K | 4.5K | Horvath | 77 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Horvath | 113 |
| RO Romania | #267 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Horvath | 42 |
| PS Palestine | #350 | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Horvath | 3 |
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 birth surnames in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Horváth 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.
In Croatian, austrijski pisac kritičko-realističkih pripovijetki i vrlo cijenjenih i često izvođenih dramskih djela ( Don Juan se vraća iz rata , Priče iz Bečke šume , Dijete našeg doba )
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Márton Horváthb. 1906HUHungarian politician (1906-1987)
- János Horváthb. 1921HUHungarian politician (1921-2019)
- Ádám Horváthb. 1930HUHungarian television director
- István Horváthb. 1935HU(1935–) minister
- Zoltán Horváthb. 1937HUHungarian sabre fencer
- Balázs Horváthb. 1942HUHungarian politician (1942-2006)
- Zsolt Horváthb. 1964HUHungarian politician, born 1964
- Ferenc Horváthb. 1973HUfootball player (b. 1973)
- Pavel Horváthb. 1975CZCzech association football player
- Lili Horvátb. 1982HUnot in their usual nameHungarian actress (born 1982)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Horváth mean, and where does it come from?
- From horvát (“Croatian”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Családnevek enciklopédiája.
- How do you pronounce Horváth?
- A machine transcription gives /horvaːt/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- In which country does Horváth have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Horváth in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled horvath.
- How common is the name Horváth?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,302 people named Horváth in 2010, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Horváth compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Horváth is the 5th most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Horváth?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/horv%C3%A1thThe 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, “Horváth” — the 5th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.