Laszlo

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.

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Laszlo is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Hungarian70%

  Glorious Ruler Or

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• English15%

  Hungarian form of Ladislav; glorious ruler or glorious power.

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The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Laszlo, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Enzo
• Camp
• Vladislav
• Elio
• Ansel
• Aldo
• Otto
• Casimir
• Cosmo
• Emrys
• Ivo
• Carlo

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Laszlo is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Brazil, Spain

  Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written László, Lászlo, Làszlo, Làszlò, Laszló

• a separate name9 spellings in the group

  Also written László, Läszlo, Làszlô, Laszló, Làszlò

• Polish given name7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United Kingdom, Belgium, United States

  Also written László, Laszló, Lászlò, Lászlö, Lászlô

• Hindi given name8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Romania, Switzerland

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written László, Laszló, Lászlò, Läszlö, Lászlo

• Croatian surname29 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, United States, Bulgaria

  Languages: Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian

  Also written Laslo, László, Ласло, Laszló, Lászlo

53 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Laszlo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In French, Hungarian form of Ladislaus, from Slavic elements meaning 'rule' + 'glory'.

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In French, Hungarian form of Vladislas, from Slavic meaning “one who possesses glory”.

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In Swedish, Laszlo (László) är en ungersk form av Ladislaus, den latiniserade formen av ett slaviskt namn (polskans Władysław och tjeckiskans Vladislavs). Namnet är sammansatt av ord som betyder ’härska’ och ’ära, rykte’.

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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.

• Ladislaus I of Hungaryb. 1046HUnot in their usual nameKing of Hungary from 1077 to 1095
• Ladislaus IV of Hungaryb. 1262HUnot in their usual nameKing of Hungary (1262-1290)
• Ladislaus the Posthumousb. 1440HUnot in their usual nameKing of Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia, Duke of Austria
• László Moholy-Nagyb. 1895HUHungarian artist (1895–1946)
• László József Bírób. 1899HUHungarian inventor (1899–1985)
• László Kubalab. 1927HUHungarian footballer (1927–2002)
• László Sólyomb. 1942HUpolitician and former President of Hungary (1942–2023)
• László Lovászb. 1948HUHungarian mathematician (1948–)
• László Krasznahorkaib. 1954HUHungarian novelist and screenwriter
• László Kövérb. 1959HUHungarian politician (1959–)

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).

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.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

How do you pronounce Laszlo?

A machine transcription gives /lɒslo/ (IPA) for Hungarian.

Where does the name Laszlo come from?

Hungarian form of Ladislaus, from Slavic elements meaning 'rule' + 'glory'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).

What does the name Laszlo mean?

In English, Hungarian form of Ladislav; glorious ruler or glorious power.

Is Laszlo a male or female name?

Laszlo is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), France (INSEE, 2024), Norway (SSB) and Spain (INE), among others.

In which country does Laszlo have the most bearers?

In Hungary, the national register counted about 253 thousand people named Laszlo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laszlo.

Where is Laszlo most common?

Laszlo is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 39 people carrying it.

How common is the name Laszlo?

In Hungary, the national register counted 253,223 people named Laszlo in 2025, about 1 in 39 residents.

How common is Laszlo compared with other names?

In Hungary, Laszlo is the most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.