Zoltan
Zoltan reached its high-water mark in 1967 at number 1,540, and has been recorded 1,024 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 730 Zoltans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 34.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Zoltan
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,024
- Estimated living today
- 730
- Median age today
- 34
- Peak year
- 1967
- Best rank
- 1,540th
- Rank in 2025
- 12,008th
- First recorded
- 1912
How old the living Zoltans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,024 babies given the name since 1912, about 730 are alive — 72 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1991 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
From Hungarian Zoltán, from szultán (“sultan”), from ota سلطان, from Arabic سُلْطَان (“ruler”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Zoltans
- Zoltán Kodály (1882–1967)Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue
- Zoltán Gera (born 1979)Hungarian footballer
- Zoltán Czibor (1929–1997)Hungarian footballer
- Zoltán Stieber (born 1988)Hungarian association football player
- Zoltán Tildy (1889–1961)President of Hungary
- Zoltán Fábri (1917–1994)Hungarian actor, film director
- Zoltán of Hungary (896–949)Grand Prince of the Magyars
- Zoltán Horváth (1937–2025)Hungarian sabre fencer
People named Zoltan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Zoltan is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Zoltan is most concentrated in New Jersey (8.2×), California (3.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1967
The most popular boys’ names the year Zoltan peaked:
Zoltan elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Zoltan | 180 | 1,447th |
| England and Wales boys | Zoltan | 100 | 2,104th |
| Switzerland boys | Zoltán | 13 | 1,267th |
| Poland boys | Zoltan | 2 birth registrations | 779th |
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.
Zoltan: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Zoltán | 10 | 0.001% | 1,233rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Zoltán | 3 | 0.001% | 598th |
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.
Zoltan 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 | Zoltán +1 spelling | 31 | 53 |
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 Zoltan lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 293 men called Zoltan 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 | Zoltan | 29 | 0.054 | 1,482 |
| Tarragona | Zoltan | 14 | 0.032 | 1,676 |
| Palmas, Las | Zoltan | 18 | 0.031 | 2,353 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Zoltan | 29 | 0.029 | 2,031 |
| Balears, Illes | Zoltan | 17 | 0.027 | 2,015 |
| Ciudad Real | Zoltan | 6 | 0.024 | 1,525 |
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
Zoltan 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.