Balthazar

Gender: Masculine
Origin: Phoenician
Meaning: “Ba’al protects the king.”
Eng (Bel-the-Zar)

The name is believed to be a corruption of the Biblical Phoenician name, Belshazzar, which appears in the Book of Daniel as the name of a Babylonian king.

In Christian folklore, the name is attributed to one of the Three Wise Men, in both the Eastern and Western Christian Church, Balthazar is honored as a saint.

The designated name-day is January 6th.

Other forms of the name include:

• Baltasar (Basque/Galician/Maltese/Spanish)
• Hausl (Bavarian)
• Balthazar (Catalan/English/French/Dutch/German)
• Baltazaru (Corsican)
• Baltazar (Croatian/Czech/Polish)
• Hauser (German: Austrian dialectical form)
• Boldizsár/Baltazár (Hungarian)
• Baldasarre (Italian)
• Baltazaras (Lithuanian)
• Bautesar (Occitanian)
• Balser/Balzer (Romansch)
• Valtasar (Russian)
• Baltazár (Slovak)
• Boltežar (Slovene)
• Baltsar (Swedish)

As for nicknames, Bolt might make an interesting choice.