The Hungarian name is still used by Hungarian speakers today.
Hungarian is the largest minority language in Romania: the 2002 census listed 1,447,544 native Hungarian speakers in the country, or 6.7% of the total population.
A few given names are also used as family names, and this practice may confuse even a native Hungarian speaker.
The territory of Bacska had 789,705 inhabitants, and 45,4% or 47,2% declared themselves to be Hungarian native speakers or ethnic Hungarians.
The city was also home to 1,232 Jews, of whom many were native Hungarian speakers.
Between 1921 and 1931 census, number of Hungarian speakers in Bačka increased from 260,998 to 268,711.
Helsinki Watch highlights the increasing limitations on the use of the Hungarian language in Transylvania, where most Hungarian speakers live.
Since then, the number of Hungarian speakers has been falling slowly but steadily.
There are also small numbers of Serbian, Croatian, German, and Hungarian speakers.
And what about the largest indigenous national minority, the millions of Hungarian speakers?