Zoltan

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Zoltan 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: Zoltan är ett ungerskt namn av ovisst ursprung, möjligen av ett turkiskt ord för en titel, sammanhängande med ordet sultan.

rarermore common
  • 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 Zoltan 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)

192,611 people, 2025

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
294 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 51 (inferred from the name graph)

Hungary

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ZoltanLatin(measured from records)
ЗолтанCyrillic(measured from records)
โซลทานThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Zoltán in SK Slovakia, DE Germany, AT Austria 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)

recorded in Swedish

Zoltan är ett ungerskt namn av ovisst ursprung, möjligen av ett turkiskt ord för en titel, sammanhängande med ordet sultan.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zoltan 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.

Where Zoltan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HU Hungary#3192,6111 in 51193KZoltan243
RO Romania#155≈10,000 est.≈1 in 2.1K—Zoltan81
RS Serbia#190≈3,300 est.≈1 in 2.1KlistedZoltan47
DE Germany—≈3,200 est.≈1 in 25K—Zoltán64
UA Ukraine#307≈2,800 est.≈1 in 16K—Золтан21
SK Slovakia#95≈2,600 est.≈1 in 2.1K—Zoltán86
AT Austria—≈980 est.≈1 in 9.1K29Zoltán27

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); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Zoltan is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Zoltàn

  • Danish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States, Belgium, Iceland

    Languages: Danish, Icelandic

    Also written Zoltán, Zoltàn

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Zoltán

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Zoltân, Zóltan, Zoltàn, Zoltán, Zoltān

43 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

500100015002000Zoltán of Hungary, b. 896Zoltán Kodály, b. 1882Zoltán Tildy, b. 1889Zoltán Fábri, b. 1917Zoltán Czibor, b. 1929Zoltán Latinovits, b. 1931Zoltán Kocsis, b. 1952Zoli Ádok, b. 1976Zoltán Gera, b. 1979Zoltán Stieber, b. 1988

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 62 sources across 32 countries.

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 Zoltan mean?
Recorded meaning: Zoltan är ett ungerskt namn av ovisst ursprung, möjligen av ett turkiskt ord för en titel, sammanhängande med ordet sultan.
Is Zoltan a male or female name?
Zoltan 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 Zoltan have the most bearers?
In Hungary, the national register counted about 193 thousand people named Zoltan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zoltan.
Where is Zoltan most common?
Zoltan is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 51 people carrying it.
How common is the name Zoltan?
In Hungary, the national register counted 192,611 people named Zoltan in 2025, about 1 in 51 residents.
How common is Zoltan compared with other names?
In Hungary, Zoltan is the 3rd most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.

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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, “Zoltan” — the 3rd most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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