Given name & surname
Baltazár
“May Bel protect the king”
Baltazár is a masculine given name from Akkadian, meaning “May Bel protect the king.” It is used in Hungarian and Slovak.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Akkadian 𒁹𒀭𒂗𒈗𒋀 (“May Bel protect the king”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Baltazár’s family of names
In Slovak usage, Baltazár has a diminutive in Baltazárko. In Hungarian usage, Baltazár shares a linguistic root with the English form Balthazar. In Hungarian usage, Baltazár has a related form in Boldizsár.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Baltazár has relatives in 3 languages.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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