Zsolt
Fewer than a hundred men in Poland carry it, and the birth records show no boys given it at all. The name goes back to a Slavic root meaning ruler, or sultan.
Zsolt Pronunciation
Zsolt is pronounced SSOLT (/ssɔlt/).
What Zsolt means
Where Zsolt comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zsolt grows from a Slavic root, and the meaning attached to it is direct: ruler, and in an older reading, sultan. Polish keeps both words, „sułtan, władca". A term of command sits at the base of the name.
That sense of rule was never a promise about the child who wears it. It marked rank, the person set above others, and the name held the sense steady even where no sultan ever governed. Zsolt stayed short. Two syllables, hard at the front.
Picture the name read from a class register in a Polish school. The opening letters, z beside s, slow the teacher for a beat before the rest follows. After that pause the boy answers, and the register moves on. What remains behind the name is the old Slavic sense the record gives it: władca, the one who rules.
How many people are named Zsolt
1 in 239845 men in Poland is named Zsolt. 89 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3740 among male names.
Zsolt as a middle name
Zsolt is a first name for 89 men in Poland and a middle name for another 19, an 82/18 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2101st, between Yossef (19) and Adan (18).
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#2099 Yakup19
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#2100 Yossef19
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#2101 Zsolt19
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#2102 Adan18
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#2103 Aditya18