Balthazar

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Balthazar is one spelling over 3 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.

• English41%

  Greek; one of the three wise men in the Bible

  as a name·Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  A name ascribed to one of the Magi.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Portuguese30%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Balthazar in Portuguese.

• French18%

  Biblical name from Babylonian Bēl-šarra-uṣur, 'Bel protect the king'.

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

  Balthazar (12 litre bottle of Champagne)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  du nom hébreu Bēlṭĕshatztzár, dérivé du babylonien balāt shar uṣur « sauvez la vie du roi ».

  as a name·Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

  Du babylonien Bel-shar-utsur, «Bel protège le roi».

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

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 Balthazar, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Aloysius
• Melchior
• Amadeus
• Casimir
• Alaric
• Achilles
• Ambrose
• Constantine
• Aurelius
• Archibald
• Cornelius
• Andromeda

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.

Balthazar is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Venezuela

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

  Also written Balthazár, Balthâzär

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Balthazár

55 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.

• August Balthazarb. 1893BEBelgian politician (1893-1952)
• Brian Balthazarb. 1901USAmerican television personality
• Louis Balthazarb. 1931CApolitical scientist and university professor
• Herman Balthazarb. 1938BEBelgian historian and politician
• Richard Balthazarb. 1942American writer
• Lucie Balthazarb. 1958CACanadian handball player
• Tom Balthazarb. 1962BEBelgian lawyer and politician
• Nic Balthazarb. 1964BEbroadcast personality, film director (born 1964)

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).

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

Where does the name Balthazar come from?

Biblical name from Babylonian Bēl-šarra-uṣur, 'Bel protect the king'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).

How common is the name Balthazar?

In Brazil, the national register counted 1,262 people named Balthazar, about 1 in 168 thousand residents.

What does the name Balthazar mean?

In English, Greek; one of the three wise men in the Bible

What are other forms of the name Balthazar?

In the etymology graph, Baldassare is a form of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Balthazar?

It depends on the language: in English /bælˈθeɪzə/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /baltɐzaɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

In which country does Balthazar have the most bearers?

In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Balthazar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled balthazar.

Where is Balthazar most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Balthazar is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 2.8 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.