Entry № 3061 · Hungarian origin

Erzsébet Erzsébet — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ER-zheh-bet /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hungarian
Meaning
"Hungarian Elizabeth (Saint of Hungary)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Hungarian)

A name that means "hungarian elizabeth (saint of hungary)".

Erzsébet is the Hungarian form of Elizabeth. Saint Erzsébet of Hungary (1207-1231) was the Hungarian princess who, widowed at twenty, gave away her wealth to the poor and joined the Third Order of Saint Francis — patron saint of the Third Order Franciscans and a national symbol of Hungary. Canonized just four years after her death.

Featured in Liszt's oratorio The Legend of Saint Elizabeth.

Hungarian Elizabeth. The princess who gave away her wealth and joined the Franciscans.

The name in its native script.

Erzsébet
Transliteration
Erzsébet
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛr.ʒɛ.bɛt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Erzsébet stands.

Erzsébet does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Erzsébets before her.

Real people
Saint Erzsébet of Hungary
Hungarian princess-saint.
1207 – 1231
In fiction
Erzsébet
Subject of Liszt's oratorio.
1862

Names connected to Erzsébet.

The number behind Erzsébet.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Erzsébet reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.