Given name & surname
Zsolt
“one who is honored”
Zsolt is used as a given name and a surname. One Hungarian interpretation is “one who is honored.”
Original HungarianZsolti
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hungarian interpretation is “one who is honored.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hungarian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1960. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Zsolt through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1960
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1969. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1960. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 577 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Zsolt’s family of names
In Hungarian usage, Zsolt has a diminutive in Zsolesz. Zsolt has a related form in Zoltan. Zsolt has a related form in Zolt.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Zsolt
- Zsolt BaumgartnerHungarian racing driverborn 1981
- Zsolt KalmárHungarian footballerborn 1995
- Zsolt ErdeiHungarian boxerborn 1974
- Zsolt NagyHungarian association football playerborn 1993
- Zsolt SemjénHungarian politician, leader of the Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP)born 1962
- Zsolt Korcsmárassociation football playerborn 1989
- Zsolt NemcsikHungarian sabre fencerborn 1977
- Zsolt LőwHungarian association football playerborn 1979
- Zsolt GyulayCanoe racerborn 1964
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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