Zoltán
The name carries the sense of "sultan" or "ruler". In Poland it stays rare: about 156 men hold it, and no boys have been given it in years.
Zoltán Pronunciation
Zoltán is pronounced ZOLTÁN (/zɔltán/).
What Zoltán means
Where Zoltán comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zoltán is a Hungarian name, a guest on Polish registers. It grew from a Hungarian word for the sultan, the title once borne by Muslim rulers to the south. The short meaning holds that rank: sultan, ruler.
The oldest famous bearer sits deep in Hungarian history. Zoltán, a son of the grand prince Árpád, held power around the year 900. Among Hungarians the name later shortened into the form Zsolt. In Poland it stays whole. The accent rides the a, Zoltán.
Read down a Polish school register and the name breaks the run of Piotrs and Krzysztofs. It marks a family with a Hungarian thread, or a taste for something from across the Tatras. The word behind it never changes. Zoltán means sultan, a ruler.
How many people are named Zoltán
1 in 136835 men in Poland is named Zoltán. 156 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2591 among male names.
Zoltán as a middle name
Zoltán is a first name for 156 men in Poland and a middle name for another 44, a 78/22 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1194th, between Wilfried (44) and Alvaro (43).
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#1192 Tuấn44
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#1193 Wilfried44
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#1194 Zoltan44
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#1195 Alvaro43
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#1196 Anwar43