Zoltán
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zoltán is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From the Hungarian noun szultán (“sultan”). It has Turkish origins from the Arabic term for monarch.
- HUHungary1 in 51(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 2.1K
- RORomania≈1 in 2.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zoltán itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Hungary (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 294 (measured from records)
- 1 in 51 (inferred from the name graph)
192,611 people, 2025
recorded for this name
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 Zoltan in HU Hungary, RO Romania, RS Serbia and Золтан in UA Ukraine.
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 the Hungarian noun szultán (“sultan”). It has Turkish origins from the Arabic term for monarch.
Sources 2
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zoltán 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 | #3 | 192,611 | 1 in 51 | 193K | Zoltan | 243 |
| RO Romania | #155 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Zoltan | 81 |
| RS Serbia | #190 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | listed | Zoltan | 47 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 25K | listed | Zoltán | 64 |
| UA Ukraine | #307 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Золтан | 21 |
| SK Slovakia | #95 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Zoltán | 86 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | 29 | Zoltán | 27 |
192,611 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025, counting the spelling zoltán. 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). 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)
Zoltán 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, possibly from an honorific title of Turkic origin and ultimately connected with modern English sultan .
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)
- Zoltán of Hungaryb. 896Grand Prince of the Magyars (907-949)
- Zoltán Kodályb. 1882HUHungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue (1882–1967)
- Zoltán Tildyb. 1889HUPresident of Hungary (1889-1961)
- Zoltán Fábrib. 1917HUHungarian actor, film director (1917–1994)
- Zoltán Cziborb. 1929HUHungarian footballer (1929-1997)
- Zoltán Latinovitsb. 1931HUHungarian actor
- Zoltán Kocsisb. 1952HUclassical pianist, conductor and composer (1952–2016)
- Zoli Ádokb. 1976HUnot in their usual nameHungarian singer, actor and dancer
- Zoltán Gerab. 1979HUHungarian footballer (born 1979)
- Zoltán Stieberb. 1988HUHungarian association football 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2025 | 193K | #3 |
| HU Hungary | magyarnevek — given names by decade | 1997 | 1.2K | #11 |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2000 | 1.1K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2001 | 1.1K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2003 | 1K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2002 | 999 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2004 | 950 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2005 | 896 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2006 | 801 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2007 | 784 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2008 | 755 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2009 | 721 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Zoltán mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Hungarian noun szultán (“sultan”). It has Turkish origins from the Arabic term for monarch. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Zoltán a male or female name?
- Zoltán 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.
- In which country does Zoltán have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 193 thousand people named Zoltán, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zoltan.
- Where is Zoltán most common?
- Zoltán is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 51 people carrying it.
- What are other forms of the name Zoltán?
- In the etymology graph, Zsolt is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Zoltán?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 192,611 people named Zoltán in 2025, about 1 in 51 residents.
- How common is Zoltán compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Zoltán is the 3rd most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zoltán?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zolt%C3%A1nThe 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, “Zoltán” — the 3rd most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.