According to data from the Hungary’s Ministry of the Interior (Belügyminisztérium), the most popular baby names in Hungary in 2016 were Hanna and Bence.
Here are Hungary’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2016:
Girl Names
1. Hanna, 1,669 baby girls
2. Anna, 1,206
3. Jázmin, 866
4. Zsófia, 856
5. Zoé, 833
6. Lili, 764
7. Boglárka, 762 – Boglárka is Hungarian for “buttercup.”
8. Luca, 760
9. Emma, 742
10. Léna, 697
Boy Names
1. Bence, 1,800 baby boys – Bence is a form of Vincent.
2. Máté, 1,321
3. Levente, 1,280 – Levente might be based on the Hungarian verb lesz, meaning “will be.”
4. Dominik, 1,173
5. Marcell, 1,146
6. Dávid, 1,123
7. Ádám, 1,117
8. Noel, 1,071
9. Dániel, 1,054
10. Milán, 1,037
In the girls’ top 10, Léna replaced Nóra.
In the boys’ top 10, Noel replaced Áron.
(Interestingly, the two “replaced” names — if we ignore diacritical marks — are anagrams of one another. They’re palindromic, in fact.)
And how is the name Attila faring in Hungary these days? Here’s the data for the last few years:
- 2016: Attila ranked 27th (569 baby boys)
- 2015: Attila ranked 25th (568 baby boys)
- 2014: Attila ranked 26th (560 baby boys)
- 2013: Attila ranked 26th (552 baby boys)
Source: Statistics – Hungary’s Deputy State Secretariat for the Administration of the Ministry of the Interior (via Maybe It Is Daijiro)
Image: Adapted from Flag of Hungary (public domain)
Some of the baby names rejected and accepted in Hungary during 2016:
Rejected: Cukorka (meaning “candy”), Fenyő (“pine”), Főni (“bossy”), Táblácska (“little board”)
Accepted: Bentli, Dorel, Maminti, Nurbanu