Entry № 10824 · Hungarian origin

Tünde Tünde — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TUN-deh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hungarian
Meaning
"Fairy"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Modern (Hungarian)

A name that means "fairy".

Tünde is a Hungarian name coined by the 19th-century playwright Mihály Vörösmarty from tündér, meaning "fairy." Tünde is the heroine of his 1830 play Csongor és Tünde.

Tünde is widely used in Hungary.

Fairy. The Hungarian playwright's coinage.

The name in its native script.

Tünde
Transliteration
Tünde
Pronunciation
/ ˈtʊn.dɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tünde stands.

Tünde 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.

Tündes before her.

Real people
Tünde Szabolcs
Hungarian musician.
In fiction
Tünde
Heroine of Vörösmarty's play.
1830 Hungarian play

Names connected to Tünde.

The number behind Tünde.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tünde reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.