diminutive, can be written and pronounced easily, can be recognised as either male or female etc. Approved names expand the official list, the newest edition of which is regularly published. Many recent additions are foreign names, but they must be spelled following Hungarian phonetics: Jennifer becomes Dzsenifer or Joe becomes Dzsó. Those who belong to an officially recognized minority in Hungary may also choose names from their own culture, and a register of given names maintained by the respective minority governance must be observed. If one or both parents of a child to be named are foreign citizens, the given name(s) may be chosen in accordance with the respective foreign law. Treatment of Hungarian names in English and other languages Outside Hungary, Hungarian names are usually rendered by the Western convention of other European languages. In English language academic publishing, archiving and cataloguing, different manuals of style treat Hungarian names in different ways. The Chicago Manual of Style 16th Edition (2010) reverses the Hungarian order to put the given name first but allows all of the diacritics in the name: When indexing names, Hungarian names are re-inverted so that the surname comes first in English indexes, like for English names. Hungarian treatment of foreign names This way of writing names is not used for people who are not Hungarian and not from another country that uses the Eastern name order. For example, "Tony Blair" will stay as "Tony Blair" in Hungarian texts. However, names of historical importance are generally translated and written in the Hungarian way: Kálvin János for John Calvin. Names from languages using a different script (Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek etc.) are transcribed according to pronunciation. Leaders of countries are translated only in the case of monarchs and members of their families. For example, "Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom" becomes , and "Pope Benedict XVI" becomes , but "Fidel Castro" is not changed. Before the 20th century, foreign names were often translated, for example, Jules Verne's name was written as "", and a Hungarian pronunciation was used. See also Most common Hungarian surnames References Further reading Unconventional Anthroponyms: Formation Patterns and Discursive Function, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, External links Hungarian Names 101 Names by culture