Sometimes you love a popular baby name, but you want to spice it up a little, make it different for your child. How do you do that without changing the meaning or altering the spelling to drastic proportions? Often, turning to another culture or language will provide you with a bevy of options. Be inspired with our list of Hungarian baby names for your boy and girl.

First up are translations of the American versions of baby names for boys and girls and what they look like in the Finno-Ugric language of Hungary.

Hungarian Boys Names:

Adorjan (Adrian)
Agoston (Augustine)
Antal (Anthony)
Balazs (Blaise)
Balint (Valentine)
Bartal (Bartholomew)
Bence (Vincent)
Demeter (Demetrius)
Domonkos (Dominic)
Elias/Illes (Elijah)
Endre (Andrew)
Erno (Ernest)
Ferenc (Francis)
Frigyes (Frederick)
Gabor (Gabriel)
Gyorgy (George)
Istvan (Stephen)
Jakab (Jacob/James)
Janos (John)
Jozsef (Joseph)
Kristof (Christopher)
Lajos (Louis)
Lorand (Roland)
Lorencz (Lawrence)
Marton (Martin)
Mihaly (Michael)
Miklos (Nicholas)
Odon (Edmund)
Oszkar (Oscar)
Sandor (Alexander)
Tivadar (Theodore)
Vilhelm/Vilmos (William)
Vincze (Victor)

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Hungarian Girls Names:

Ada/Alida (Adelaide)
Agi (Agnes)
Aliz (Alice)
Angyalka (Angelica)
Aniko/Annuska (Anna)
Aranka (Aurelia)
Blanka (Blanche)
Bora/Borbala (Barbara)
Brigitta (Bridget)
Cili (Cecilia)
Dorottya (Dorothea)
Erzsebet (Elizabeth)
Fanni (Frances)
Hajna (Hannah)
Ibolya (Violet)
Ildiko (Hilda)
Ilona (Helen)
Jolan (Yolanda)
Juliska (Julia)
Karole (Carol)
Katalin (Katherine)
Lujza (Louisa)
Mara (Maria)
Margit (Margaret)
Piroska (Priscilla)
Rahel (Rachel)
Rozsa (Rose)
Treszka (Teresa)
Zsanett (Jeannette)
Zsazsa (Susan)
Zsofika (Sophia)

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Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Surrounded by Austria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and the Ukraine, the country may be small, but they have a lot of history and personality to offer. As mentioned above, the Hungarian language belongs to the Finno-Ugric group of languages which provides a unique mix of letters and spellings as evidenced by the lists below.

Popular Hungarian Baby Names

The following is a list of top Hungarian baby names:

Girl Names: Anna, Boglarka, Reka, Hanna, Zsofia, Lili, Viktoria, Petra, Eszter, Laura, Nora, Dora, Vivien, Luca, Jazmin, Fanni, Dorina, Csenge, Greta, Sara.

Boy Names: Bence, Mate, Levente, David, Balazs, Daniel, Adam, Peter, Balint, Tamas, Gergo, Milan, Zsombor, Mark, Dominik, Kristof, Laszlo, Marcell, Zoltan, Botond.

Hungarian-Inspired Baby Names

Historical names associated with Hungary, from kings to battles to militant groups to places: Angevin, Arpad, Attila, Avar, Bela, Charlemagne, Corvinus, Gepid, Geza, Hun, Koppany, Krum, Ladislaus, Lajos, Lechfeld, Magyar, Pannonia, Vladislaus.

Hungarian inventors, scientists, and all-around brains: Janos Bolyai, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, Janos Irinyi, Erno Rubik (yes, the inventor of the Rubik’s Cube!), Anyos Jedlik, Otto Blathy, Miksa Deri, Karoly Zipernowsky, Tivadar Puskas, Jozsef Galamb, Imre Brody, Kalman Tihanyi, Gyorgy Jendrassik, Laszlo Biro.

For an even more exotic baby name, some of the counties in Hungary include: Baranya, Békés, Csongrád, Fejér, Heves, Nógrád, Somogy, Tolna, Vas, Zala.

From mountains to rivers, the landscape of Hungary also offers a vast reach of baby naming inspiration: Carpathian, Danube, Drava, Heviz, Kekes, Tisza.

Hungary is also known for its composers, such as classical musicians Liszt, Dohnanyi, Bartok, Kodaly and Rozsa; contemporary composers include Ligeti, Kurtag, Eotvos and Jeney.
 
Some of the most well-known Hungarian writers, poets, and wordsmiths have names worth, ahem, plagiarizing: Balint Balassi, Sebestyen Tinodi Lantos, Miklos Zrinyi, Ferenc Kazinczy, Sandor Marai, Imre Kertesz, Attila Jozsef, Ladislas Farago, Albert Wass.

Because Hungary is surrounded by so many other countries, there is a lot of crossover among cultures. When it comes to baby names, you can sometimes see the influence of Hungary’s neighbors.

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