Gabor
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name Gabor, Hungarian form of Gabriel
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡɒbor/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gabor is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common given name.
- HUHungary1 in 64(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 3.3K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 67K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Hungary (measured from records)
- Sources
- 254 (measured from records)
- 1 in 64 (inferred from the name graph)
152,049 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the personal name Gabor, Hungarian form of Gabriel.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gabor counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #11 | 152,049 | 1 in 64 | 152K | Gabor | 249 |
| RO Romania | #396 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Gabor | 60 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | 34 | Gabor | 37 |
| US United States | — | 1,175 | 1 in 283K | 1.9K | Gabor | 254 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Gabor | 115 |
| RS Serbia | #632 | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Gabor | 28 |
| SK Slovakia | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 3K | — | 3 |
152,049 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025, counting the spelling gábor. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gabor is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Eva, Zsa Zsa, US entertainers
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Dennis, Hungarian-born British
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, physicist (Nobel 1971)
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
(Gran Canaria)
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Serbo-Croatian, hideous or disgusting person or thing; eyesore, freak, monstrosity
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gabriel Bethlenb. 1580ROnot in their usual nameElected King of Hungary, Prince of Transylvania and Hungarian Protestant military leader (1580–1629)
- Gabriel Bathoryb. 1589ROnot in their usual namePrince of Transylvania (1589-1613)
- Gábor Szegőb. 1895HUHungarian mathematician
- Gábor Pogányb. 1915HUHungarian cinematographer (1915–1999)
- Gabor Matéb. 1944HUHungarian-Canadian physician (1944–)
- Gábor Csupób. 1952HUAmerican-Hungarian animator (1952–)
- Gábor Tardosb. 1964HUHungarian mathematician
- Gábor Királyb. 1976HUHungarian association football player
- Gábor Vonab. 1978HUHungarian politician
- Freddieb. 1990HUnot in their usual nameHungarian singer (born 1990)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 64 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #11,071 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5 | #11,071 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 5 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gabor mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Gabor, Hungarian form of Gabriel. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gabor?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɒbor/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- Is Gabor a male or female name?
- Gabor is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Gabor have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 152 thousand people named Gabor, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gabor.
- Where is Gabor most common?
- Gabor is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 64 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gabor?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 152,049 people named Gabor in 2025, about 1 in 64 residents.
- How common is Gabor compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Gabor is the 11th most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gaborThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gabor” — the 11th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.