Csaba
The name means "shepherd". Fewer than a hundred men in Poland carry it, so most people here will never meet a Csaba, and no boys were given it last year.
Csaba Pronunciation
Csaba is pronounced TSSAH-bah (/ˈt͡ssaba/).
What Csaba means
Where Csaba comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Csaba reaches Polish name books from outside the Slavic family. It is Hungarian. The Polish gloss records it as pasterz, shepherd, and one etymology traces the name to an old word for a herdsman who walks behind his flock.
The best known bearer is legendary. Prince Csaba appears in medieval Hungarian chronicles as a son of Attila, and his name held its currency for centuries afterward. A boy called Csaba today still shares that old Hungarian root, whatever the chroniclers made of it.
On a Polish class register, Csaba stands out at once by its spelling, the `cs` read as a single sound the way Hungarian intends. There is no Polish diminutive on record for it. The meaning stays near the surface: pasterz, the shepherd.
How many people are named Csaba
1 in 237180 men in Poland is named Csaba. 90 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3696 among male names.
Csaba as a middle name
Csaba is a first name for 90 men in Poland and a middle name for another 17, an 84/16 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2205th, between Clemens (17) and Cédric (17).
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#2203 Claudius17
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#2204 Clemens17
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#2205 Csaba17
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#2206 Cédric17
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#2207 Damilola17