Hungarian First Names - Boy or Girl? 

Did you know that Ben Affleck’s full name is Benjamin Géza Affleck? His parents had a hungaian friend.

First names in Hungarian ...areee.🥁:FAMILYNAMES! 🤣😅

As Tünde, foreign people often think that I'm a Turkish man. :) Thanks for getting it right.

Fejedelem comes from "fej" which means head. So he was the "head" of Hungarians, but it's translated as Grand Prince. One more interesting thing about translation of queen (if it wasn't a topic already). We have two names for queen: 1: királynő - she is the ruler of the kingdom 2: királyné - she is the wife of the king.

The name Szilárd is the Hungarian equivalent of Constantine.

What's the most common Hungarian female name? Kovács Jánosné :)))))

Regarding Géza's title, the most common translation for it is High Prince, but considering the hungarian society at the time High Chief would be more appropriate title, at least for me. In hungarian the title is called Fejedelem which comes from the word Fej meaning Head

Harántfekvésben volt bennem a Cshenge, Maunika! :D

The tone of the pronunciation gives away the gender of the name.

1:13 Mr. Lakatos Armandó Dzsúlió and Ms. Lakatosné Dzsamilla: 👁👄👁👁👄👁

Yes, you can choose from an approved list, but you can request new names to add on that list and if it makes sense from the linguistic point of view it can be approved. That is how some Tolkien-related names got included but these non-Hungarian origin names are approved with changed spelling to match the Hungarian phonetics.

Because Hungarians use the easter naming order it might be better to use "family name" and "given name" instead of "first name" and "last name". These were "given names".

Hahhh I'm surprised you didn't include Jácint, it always confuses people a bit, being a boy flower name :D Edit: or Özséb. You would think it has something to do with Erzsébet but no lol

Fun fact: Pebbles from Flintstones is named Enikő in the Hungarian-dubbed version. The last syllable kő means rock.

Szia Petra!! Véletlen akadtam rád itt a RU-vid-on de nagyon jó volt látni ;)! Köszi hogy az én nevem is bekerült a videóba 😁! Sok puszi, Csenge (Oxfordból😉)

Fun fact: Viktor Orbáns father and brother are called Győző. So all of their names mean 'winner'.

Az első ami eszembe jutott hogy vajon benne lesz-e a keresztnevem:) mert ez mindig vidámságot okozott amikor találkoztam angolokkkal, németekkel. köszi szépen :)

Botond is from bot + "andó", and means "wielding a stick", and is named after an old Hungarian warrior who, according to Hungarian and Greek sources, won a mace duel in Constantinople in the 10th century.

My brother's name is Zsolt (Zsolti). This is an original hungarian name.

At my last workplace we had a Rózsa (Rose) and an Ibolya (Violet)...we were a very flowery group

He reads reads out the names very well. 👍

My first thought before watching was that Erzsébet would probably be quite the challenge. And you went with it for the first one! 😀

Emese álma miatt hívják Álmost Álmosnak

Some exeptions exist though if your spouse is not Hungarian you can choose a diffrent name too . I am hungarian, have an indian spouse , living in india . Our kids are called Lucius and Nascha . ( Not hungarian names ) But kids are hungarian citizens

It was a very good video. What is interesting to me, that flower names are girl's names, except Jácint (Hyacinth). The other thing is, that Rózsa (Rose) is a girl's name, but we have a folktale: Rózsa és Ibolya (Rose and Violet) in wich, Rózsa is a man. 🤔

You should do one where they try and guess the which nicknames correspond with which legal names.

Such nice people, lovely video. One thing that came to my mind from uni is the “K-R” consonant pair which is allegedly a very ancient thing that appears in many different languages and often signifies an enclosed area rounded physically or by a certain rule etc. Like “kör” = “cirkle”, “korona” = “crown”, “király” (king), “kert” (garden), “kerítés” (fence), and so on. I wonder if “Károly” = “Charles” is related to this ancient “K-R” / “CH-R” pairs too… 🤔

"Fejeledelem" is usually translated as "prince" (like the monarch of Andorra), they don't have a distinguished expression in English. King St. Stephen's father Géza had that title from 972 to 997 AD. Some theories say "Géza" is coming from "Jesse" (since it's referred so in a few Greek or Latin documents about some of the Hungarian leaders named Géza, like the prince mentioned here or the two kings who came later). On the other hand, if we accept another theory (which is not a fact, despite some historians try to state so), that says it's King Géza, I. on our Holy Crown, then his name must come from a Turkish title called "Jeovicha" (it's also something like "prince"), since it's written as "Geobitzas" in Greek on the Crown's picture. I could go out on a limb and say that the name Szilárd may have the same etymology as the English word "solid", what's interesting is that its equivalent of some southern Slavic language is "Tvrtko", like the name of the reporter whose birth name was "Szilárd". Emese originally means "mother" and it's still used for some female animals in the form of "emse".

Emese means “mother” emse “female animal” is still occasionally used, from proto-Uralic emä , “mother” with the same word stem as emlő “breast”.

I used to have about 70 Hungarian colleagues in a town called Eger, not a single István though. We had many guys called Gábor, Csaba and Szabolcs instead. The only repeated women's names were Katalin and Tímea. Mind you, it was a steelworks, so about 90% men.

One of Erzsébet's diminutives in Zsóka. Very different from the original.

This video is wrong even in the title. In Hungarian the family name comes first (just like in the Japanese, Vetnamese, Chinese...etc) and then the given name. But when we speak a forigner in a forign language we expect that most of the forigner don't know that in our names the surname comes first and the gien name after so in the introduction we automaticaly say our names changed.

You should try Csaba on them. I'm quite often misidentified as a woman due to "a" at the end.

First names are actually second names in Hungary. Just saying

Benjamin Géza Affleck 😄, Géza was the last chief/Prince of Hungary and the father of the first King.

Could you please make a second episode?

Vajon mit tippelnének a Hedvig-re? Engem mindig is zavarba ejtett ez a név.

Actually Károly and Charles do not share a common root. The Hungarian name is derived from karvaly (sparrowhawk), while the other is of Germanic and ultimately Latin origin. However, due to the fact that they sound similar, they were later identified as being the same.

Enikő and Tünde are not from the same poet. She accidentally says so or I am the one who misheared, but Enikő is from Mihály Vörösmarty, and Tünde is from Csokonai. :) Anyways it is an interesting video, how they were thinking because of the sound of the names.

When the Bojtorján band appeared on the David Letterman show ( 1983) , their leader was renamed Viktor because Mr. Letterman couldn't say Győző. The song is Where the lazy river ( Ahol a lusta folyó) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7zuhFwAJ3VQ.html&ab_channel=csibi50 There is also a song with Karolina and Viktória..

Very good! I'm hungarian and I'm know how hard is this language

So funny to see you guys having some problems with hungarian names! I'm hungarian, and I always liked how english people are intrested in my country meanwhile our names are so natural for us! Btw... we have some REALLY weird names I have to say. I don't know... maybe Radiátor? This is a female name, I can't belive it really exists!

This is crazy i dont think i have seen one of your videos in AGES

Ede and Ida would have been also interesting to discuss😊

My name is Boglárka and people never know how to pronunce it :) I am curesd with this name, but I like it

Az én nevem Gergely. Külföldiek küzdöttek vele, mondtam is, hogy: maradjunk a Greg-nél. Van harmadik nevem is, a Gyula. Hát azt nem tudják kiejteni, és itt meg is voltam lőve, mert ennek nincs angol megfelelője.

It's so interesting: the original Hungarian names 95% were obviously male or female - but the translated ones were questionable for them.

Kàroly must be related to Karl/Karol in German and Slavic languages.

Listening it whit a hungarian knowledge (I'm Hungarian) it sounds funny at the end. But I wonder If I ask MY name, have they answer it correctly 'cause i have a very easy name called: Sára. And in english it's called like: Sarah

my name is Bence and its a very popular name nowdays.

To be honest, I know its popular, however "Botond" is not really my favorite, to me it sounds a little bit too similar to "Bolond" 😅 no offense to all the Botonds out there... There are many funny names in the official list, like "Hófehéke". Also, I always found the translations that use the "Dzs" spelling to be very amusing, like Dzsesszika and Dzsindzser.

Ben Afleck's second name is also Géza. 😊

Baton for Botond is not far off

my name is Enikő and I am very proud of my name. it is connected to the myth of the origin of the Hungarians. Meaning: female deer and the deer is my favorite animal. you know, the name obliges.

The chick in the middle has very good pronanciation.

Yes, we do have Victor as well....unfortunately....

And here I was expecting some Janos, Gyury, Istvan, Ilonko, Zsuzsa, Csaba, Levente,etc... Also, I thought Botond was a last name kinda deal, like Nagy, Islai, Bojte, Gyulai, etc.

And my name is Panna!

11:45 Pagan leader of the pagan Hungarian nation. Géza was pagan, but raised his son István as christian who babtised the whole nation later. István was elected for leader by the aristocrats, then later got aprovation and crown from the roman pope of this time. With the coronation became king.

Emese comes from the word emse, that means female of the pig. Enéh, comes from űnő, that is female deer.

1:15 Natural! Some people started giving their children names such as Pedro, Selim, Zeynep, etc. because of the movie series. This cannot be done for cultural reasons either. In a Turkish film series, someone can be Ecevit, but in Hungary a Hungarian name must be given. This is not America, where all kinds of nations live, this is Hungary, the homeland of the Hungarian people. I know few people in the West understand it today, but we don't want a mixed population. We Hungarians want to be here, this is our country.

im a Hungarian so its not rlly confusing to me

Karolus (or Karol) was the latin name of Charlemagne, the King of Franks of the Caroling dynasty

Last year somebody wanted to name their child "sausage" (kolbász). Thanks God in this country the office stops this kind of stupidity. The main directive is if a name has origin of a traditionally male or female name in any recognized culture, from the ancient Hungarian to Arabian or Latin, for example, then that can be acknowledged. BUT only by the Hungarian spelling rules. So there isn't Caroline here, only Karolina. No Jessica, only Dzsesszika. The rule makers try to restrict the "fashion names" and the strange influence, to protect our unique language. Many parents do not consider the name as a life long cattle-brand of their beloved child. If I were a young boy who is named as Sausage I would be very unhappy and shameful. This is not a game. Károly leads back to Karol (or Karel) in Slavic languages, so it's close to Carol but at this case the Carol is the cuckoo's egg, Carolus is a very old male name in Latin.

Szia Nóri és én is full véletlen találtam rá a videóra

Tünde is a mistranslation in LOTR. It sounds nice but elves are not fairies. That's what the translator did not understand, so they put in something that sounded nice. Actually, in Hungarian we use the word elf for the kind of elves in LOTR. It is elf/elfek meaning elf/elves it's just rare. That's why I only watched it in original. In the end they speak fluent Hungarian, yes. But I couldn't understand a word. Still, kudos for learning it! Also, fun fact Stephen Fry had a Hungarian grandfather. 😉

Timi

Hey, I am Hungarian

Eszter, Levente, Piroska?

😍😍👍👍❤❤

Áh, a Virágot kár volt kihagyni, szerintem fiúnak nézték volna... :D

Andrea, Luca, Nikola, all girl's names :)

A Máté még egy érdekes név lehetett volna a videóban, mert annak a talán legpontosabb angol fordítása a Matthew, aminek ugye van más magyar megfelelője is. Szóval ha így nézzük, a Máté név egyedi magyar név!

Fejedelem: emperor, ruler, leader

Az Enikő szerintem talán a legszexibb női név. Érdekes, hogy egy kicsit talán ezért is érezhetem szintén szexinek az Anikót.

The name Szabolcs should have been added. A real tongue killer. :)

Boglárka

M'y name is Csenge!

Mi már folyékonyan beszélünk magyarul😂😂

Szilárd nickname is Sziszka.

Enikő az ünő (tehén) szó kicsinyítőképzős változata, szóval tehénke. Az Emese pedig szoptató anyát jelent.

Feliratozhatnád magyarul. 🙂

I'm from hungary. The pronouncing and grammar is really hard. The most popular boy name is Dominik, the most popular girl name is Hanna. There is a weird girl name Napsugár, it means Sunshine.

én petra vadok

I hungarian!!!

bözsi - bazsi

POV: Magyar vagy és te is végignézted Xd

Klasz lett.

like aki magyarországban nézi ezt a videót

Too bad Zoltán wasn't on it

Reflecting to this pronounce debate in the US.We hungarians don't have He/She only They/Them. :D

hungarian first name is family name...

You should ask what they think about the Hungarian name Ariel :D (It's a boy's name)

Fejedelem = Ruler

Az a magyar kiejtés🤣

Az én nevemmel sem tud mit kezdeni az angolszász, vagy a német!

If you have 1900 boys names why is nearly EVERY hungarian man called Istvàn

state approved names??? what??? does that applies to other nations living there or just Hungarians? in any case that sounds fascist