Entry № 8180 · Hungarian origin

Piroska Piroska — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PEE-rohsh-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hungarian
Meaning
"Little red one"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Hungarian)

A name that means "little red one".

Piroska is the Hungarian word for "Little Red Riding Hood" — from piros (red). Also a traditional Hungarian feminine name.

Piroska is widely used in Hungary.

Little red one. The Hungarian Red Riding Hood.

The name in its native script.

Piroska
Transliteration
Piroska
Pronunciation
/ ˈpiː.roʊʃ.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Piroska stands.

Piroska 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.

Piroskas before her.

Real people
Saint Piroska
Hungarian princess, Byzantine Empress.
1088 – 1134
In fiction
Piroska
Hungarian Little Red Riding Hood.
Folktale

Names connected to Piroska.

The number behind Piroska.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Piroska reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.