Szilárd
given name · Latin script
Meaning: solid, firm
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/silaːrd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Szilárd is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.
- HUHungary1 in 855(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 55K
- RORomania≈1 in 91K
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
- 74 (measured from records)
- 1 in 855 (inferred from the name graph)
11,429 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 Szilard in 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)
solid, firm
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Szilárd 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 | #364 | 11,429 | 1 in 855 | 11K | Szilárd | 74 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Szilárd | 15 |
| SK Slovakia | #548 | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Szilárd | 23 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | listed | Szilard | 59 |
| SE Sweden | — | 31 | 1 in 329K | 31 | Szilárd | 5 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 296K | 6 | Szilard | 18 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 325K | — | Szilárd | 10 |
11,429 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); the de-munich-vornamen register; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Szilárd 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: from the vocabulary word szilárd firm, steadfast. The name is used as a loan translation of CONSTANT .
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)
- Szilárd Zielinskib. 1860HUarchitect (1860–1924)
- Szilárd Ignác Bogdánffyb. 1911RSRoman Catholic bishop (1911-1953)
- Szilárd Ivánb. 1912HUHungarian painter (1912–1988)
- Szilárd Rubinb. 1927HUHungarian writer and poet (1927-2010)
- Szilárd Keresztesb. 1932HUHungarian bishop
- Szilárd Kunb. 1935HUOlympic sport shooter (1935-1987)
- Szilárd Borbélyb. 1963HUHungarian writer (1963–2014)
- Szilárd Némethb. 1964HUHungarian politician
- Szilárd Némethb. 1977SKSlovak association football player
- Szilárd Jansikb. 1994HUHungarian water polo player
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 16 sources across 8 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 Szilárd mean, and where does it come from?
- solid, firm Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Szilárd a male or female name?
- Szilárd 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.
- How do you pronounce Szilárd?
- A machine transcription gives /silaːrd/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- In which country does Szilárd have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Szilárd, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled szilárd.
- Where is Szilárd most common?
- Szilárd is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 855 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Szilárd?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 11,429 people named Szilárd in 2025, about 1 in 855 residents.
- How common is Szilárd compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Szilárd is the 364th most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Szilárd?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/szil%C3%A1rdThe 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, “Szilárd” — the 364th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.