Hungarian names that work in the UK?

[ImHungry1989]

Hello, my husband and I are Hungarian and live in the UK. We are due in 12 days and want a name that works in Hungary and the UK without accents. For a girl we have decided on Eliza but we cannot choose for an idea. Our surname is Bartus.

Idea = boy

Laszlo! One of my favourite names.

@Serenity05 My dh’s name!

Not sure about Hungarian names specifically but international names I can think of

Nico
Leo
Karl
Joseph

In the class I teach, there’s a boy called Levente, shortened to Levi.

Dominik
Markus
Sebestyan
Izsak

Izsak
Andras
Tomi
Jakab

Sam

I wouldn't have a clue what a Hungarian name is! Could you tell us some you like and we can tell you how they sound to a British ear?

My son is half-Hungarian and Leo works well. Other names...Daniel? I wouldn't go for Csaba or Attila though

Milan

Maybe also...Sam, Joszef (not sure if Hungarian spelling is right), Lucas (sorry can't remember Hungarian spelling), Andras. I had toyed with Krisztof and still really like it. Kristian also maybe?

Dominik
Patrik

Magda
Gabriela
Anna

Imre

I looked after a gorgeous little boy who was Hungarian, his name was Máté 😊

Zoltan ?

I like Sandor.

Endre

Adam works in both languages, I think?

Alexander
Henrik
Adam

My partner is Hungarian and we wanted a Hungarian name that also worked in English so we have a Szofi and a Zoltán. I always get positives about Zoli although some people miss hear and think its Oli (as in short for oliver).
We have quick a few Hungarian friends who live here and in my experience
Imre (Imi) most english people cant pronounce cos they cant roll the r.
Levente (Levi) is fine thou everyone pronounces it like the Jean's the first time and has to be corrected!
Erik and Dominik both work in terms of being pronounced right first time.
Sandór always prounced wrong.
Benji is fine but personally I think sounds a bit childish on an older man.
We found boys names much harder to pick than girls ones, we just went through the 'book of names' til we found one.

(I've NC for this seen as I mentioned my kids names)

Just avoid Szabolcs!

I know two Attilas, one is at school with my children and I absolutely love this name. I love the name Attila.

Erno is another name I love.
Arpad
Benedek
Daniel
Adrian
Emil
Ivan
Jonas
Otto
Viktor
Szilveszter

Mate
Stephen
Adrian
Thomas/Tomas
Josef

Hungarians I know.

Do you want it to be identifiably ‘not English’ but pronounceable, understandable eg Viktor

Or totally ambiguous origin e.g. Daniel?

The trouble with MÁTÉ would be that people will be pronouncing it as mate. It’s a lovely name in Hungarian though.