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Zsolt

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Zsolt has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1960. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1960, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Zsolt, 1969

1 in 695,000

Zsolt over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zsolt: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zsolt means

Zsolt is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Zsolt is used in Hungarian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hungarian, Zsolt is pronounced [ˈʒolt].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Zsolt between 1960 and 1969. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1960; its best national rank was #4,036 in 1960.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Zsolt?

Zsolt had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1969, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1969
1 in 695,000
5 of 3,475,126 births
Among boys only
1 in 358,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1969
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,756 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zsolt sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1969 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 481,756 children born in 1969 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zsolt. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zsolts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zsolt was born before 1960 — so the typical Zsolt is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Zsolt rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1960 (6)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,036
1960

Spellings of Zsolt

Zsolt is not the most common spelling — Colt is, with 67.7% against Zsolt's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Zsolt around the world

Where Zsolt ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1952–1978
    #424
    in 1978

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Zsolt by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,036
1960
Peak year
1960
6 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
1969
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Zsolt

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Zsolt

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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