Balogh
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hungarian nickname for a left-handed person, often implying clumsiness
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbæɫoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Balogh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common surname.
- HUHungary≈1 in 485(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 96K
- SKSlovakia1 in 2.4K
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 (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 207 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 485 (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Hungarian nickname for a left-handed person, often implying clumsiness.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Balogh 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 | #10 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 485 | 81K | Balogh | 166 |
| CN China | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Balogh | 5 |
| US United States | — | 3,448 | 1 in 96K | 3.5K | Balogh | 207 |
| SK Slovakia | #60 | 2,247 | 1 in 2.4K | 2.2K | Balogh | 59 |
| RO Romania | #377 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Balogh | 45 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 345 | 1 in 31K | 346 | Balogh | 33 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 297 | 1 in 28K | 297 | Balogh | 26 |
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 birth surnames in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- János Baloghb. 1892ROHungarian chess player (1892-1980)
- Thomas Balogh, Baron Baloghb. 1905GBBritish politician (1905-1985)
- Catherine Storrb. 1913GBnot in their usual nameEnglish children's writer (1913–2001)
- Mary Baloghb. 1944GBWelsh-Canadian novelist
- Suzanne Baloghb. 1973AUsport shooter
- Gábor Baloghb. 1976HUHungarian modern pentathlete
- Csaba Baloghb. 1987HUHungarian chess player
- Balázs Baloghb. 1990HUassociation football player (b. 1990)
- Norbert Baloghb. 1996HUHungarian footballer
- Botond Baloghb. 2002HUHungarian 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Balogh mean, and where does it come from?
- Hungarian nickname for a left-handed person, often implying clumsiness. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Balogh?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbæɫoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Balogh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Balogh in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled balogh.
- How common is the name Balogh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,448 people named Balogh in 2010, about 1 in 96 thousand residents.
- How common is Balogh compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Balogh is the 10th most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/baloghThe 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, “Balogh” — the 10th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.