Laszlo
Laszlo is a boy's name that peaked in 2013, when it was the 2,998th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 3,513th. About 990 Laszlos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Laszlo
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,057
- Estimated living today
- 990
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 2013
- Best rank
- 2,998th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,513th
- First recorded
- 1957
How old the living Laszlos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,057 babies given the name since 1957, about 990 are alive — 93 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hungarian
Borrowed from Hungarian László, from the given name Ladislav, a variant of Vladislav.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Laszlos
- László Krasznahorkai (born 1954)Hungarian novelist and screenwriter
- László Sólyom (1942–2023)politician and former President of Hungary
- László Bíró (1899–1985)Hungarian inventor
- László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946)Hungarian artist
- László Kubala (1927–2002)Hungarian footballer
- László Kövér (born 1959)Hungarian politician
- László Szabó (1917–1998)Hungarian chess player
- László Papp (1926–2003)Hungarian boxer
People named Laszlo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Laszlo is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Laszlo is most concentrated in California (5.7×), New York (3.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2013
The most popular boys’ names the year Laszlo peaked:
Laszlo elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Laszlo | 600 | 1,413th |
| England and Wales boys | Laszlo | 165 | 1,627th |
| Belgium boys | Laszlo | 144 | 578th |
| Switzerland boys | Laszlo | 48 | 978th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Laszlo: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Laszlo | 21 | 0.002% | 844th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Laszlo | 27 | 0.006% | 386th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Laszlo: rank by region
In 2025, Laszlo was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Laszlo | 461 | 5 |
In 2021, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Laszlo appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (190th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Laszlo among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | László +2 spellings | 25 | 59 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Laszlo lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 296 men called Laszlo were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Laszlo | 41 | 0.077 | 1,112 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Laszlo | 54 | 0.054 | 1,235 |
| Palmas, Las | Laszlo | 19 | 0.033 | 2,246 |
| Tarragona | Laszlo | 12 | 0.027 | 1,875 |
| Málaga | Laszlo | 21 | 0.024 | 1,905 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Laszlo | 6 | 0.019 | 2,463 |
Listed in 13 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 39 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Laszlo against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.