Comments for the name Zoltán

This was my great uncle's name who was Hungarian. I love it and will name my son Zoltan. It sounds very cool and unique without being weird.

I don't really like the name. If I hear the name I always think of a man with black hair and brown eyes.

Klinger in M*A*S*H takes this name in an episode where he claims he is "King of the Gypsies".

Zoltan Kodaly, Hungarian composer.

Zoltan Kocsis, Hungarian pianist.

Zoltan Karpathy, Hungarian linguist in the musical My Fair Lady (not present in original play Pygmalion). (He takes Eliza Doolittle for a Hungarian princess.)

Zoltan is the name of the fortune-telling machine in the movie Big.

Zoltan is a Slavic name. It comes from the Slavic name Zlatan (golden) but through Church Slavonic since in the middle ages gold was written as 'zoloto' which comes from the word for yellow (zolto). Some Slavic languages still call it like that. The name is basically an adjective meaning "he who is golden (ie precious)". There are at least 40 male and female Slavic names with the stem 'zlato'. This is the first time someone has derived this "Hungarian" name from Turkish. Everywhere else it states that the name is Slavic.

The "king" meaning of this name certainly fits to my imagination--I picture a very powerful and influential man. It might sound a little odd on a child, but I'm not stopping you if you want to name your son this.

Hungarian for life, according to the book, "The Very Best Baby Name Book In The Whole Wide World" by Bruce Lansky (copyright date: 1995).

Zoltan sounds so goofy. It also seems to be the go-to name for guys who become fortune tellers or magicians.