Miklós
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Nicholas
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mikloːʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Miklós is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 75th most common given name.
- HUHungary1 in 234(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 513K
- DEGermany≈1 in 746K
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
- 222 (measured from records)
- 1 in 234 (inferred from the name graph)
41,749 people, 2025
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 Miklos in US United States, DE Germany, AT Austria.
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)
a male given name, equivalent to English Nicholas
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Miklós 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 | #75 | 41,749 | 1 in 234 | 42K | Miklós | 102 |
| US United States | — | 649 | 1 in 513K | 1.3K | Miklos | 222 |
| SE Sweden | — | 201 | 1 in 51K | 201 | Miklós | 7 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Miklós | 17 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 746K | 1 | Miklos | 78 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 104K | 12 | Miklos | 41 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 88K | listed | Miklós | 3 |
| IS Iceland | — | 3 | 1 in 117K | 3 | — | — |
41,749 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register; 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)
Miklós 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 NICHOLAS .
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)
- Nikola VII Zrinskib. 1620HUnot in their usual nameCroatian military commander (1620-1664)
- Miklós Yblb. 1814HU(1814–1891) Hungarian architect
- Miklós Horthyb. 1868HURegent of Hungary from 1920 to 1944 (1868-1957)
- Miklós Kállayb. 1887HUHungarian politician (1887–1967)
- Miklós Rózsab. 1907HUHungarian-American composer (1907–1995)
- Nicholas Kaldorb. 1908GBnot in their usual nameHungarian-British economist
- Miklós Radnótib. 1909HUHungarian Jewish Christian poet (1909–1944)
- Jancsó Miklósb. 1921HUHungarian film director and screenwriter (1921–2014)
- Mickey Hargitayb. 1926HUnot in their usual nameHungarian-American actor and bodybuilder (1926–2006)
- Miklós Némethb. 1948HUHungarian economist and politician
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)
Attested in 24 sources across 12 countries.
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 Miklós mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Nicholas Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Miklós?
- A machine transcription gives /mikloːʃ/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- Is Miklós a male or female name?
- Miklós 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 Miklós?
- In the etymology graph, Nicolas, Nicholas and Nick are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Miklós have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 42 thousand people named Miklós, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled miklós.
- Where is Miklós most common?
- Miklós is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 234 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Miklós?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 41,749 people named Miklós in 2025, about 1 in 234 residents.
- How common is Miklós compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Miklós is the 75th most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mikl%C3%B3sThe 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, “Miklós” — the 75th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.