Balazs
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Balazs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 23rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Hungarian Balázs.
- HUHungary1 in 132(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 178K
- RORomania≈1 in 8K
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
- 185 (measured from records)
- 1 in 132 (inferred from the name graph)
74,303 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:
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)
Borrowed from Hungarian Balázs.
Sources 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Balazs 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 | #23 | 74,303 | 1 in 132 | 74K | Balazs | 185 |
| RO Romania | #779 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Balazs | 51 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 33 | Balazs | 24 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 178K | 3 | Balazs | 85 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 32 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 94 | Balazs | 28 |
74,303 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025, counting the spelling balázs. 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); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Balázs Lengyelb. 1918HUHungarian writer, literary critic (1918-2007)
- Balázs Horváthb. 1942HUHungarian politician (1942-2006)
- Balázs Taróczyb. 1954HUHungarian tennis player
- Balázs Hidvéghib. 1970HUHungarian politician (1970)
- Balázs Kissb. 1972HUathletics competitor
- Balázs Dzsudzsákb. 1986HUHungarian association football player
- Balázs Orbánb. 1986HUHungarian politician, deputy minister and secretary of state (born 1986)
- Balázs Bajib. 1989HUHungarian hurdler
- Balázs Megyerib. 1990HUassociation football player
- Balázs Baloghb. 1990HUassociation football player (b. 1990)
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 36 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 46 | #19,892 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 33 | #34,513 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Balazs mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Hungarian Balázs. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Balazs a male or female name?
- Balazs 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 Balazs have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 74 thousand people named Balazs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled balazs.
- Where is Balazs most common?
- Balazs is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 132 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Balazs?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 74,303 people named Balazs in 2025, about 1 in 132 residents.
- How common is Balazs compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Balazs is the 23rd 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/balazsThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Balazs” — the 23rd most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.