Its name comes from an old Hungarian personal name.

Its Hungarian name received its current form in 1913.

In 1913, the official Hungarian name of the village is Erdőszentgyörgy.

The Hungarian name first appears in a tax registration in 1532.

By the middle of the next century roughly half the population had Hungarian names.

Réka is an old Hungarian female given name from the 10th century.

The Hungarian name for this yeast is hártya which means film.

Bács - a similar Hungarian name with different language.

Note: Hungarian name of places are given in parenthesis at first.

The Hungarian and German names for the village have same meaning.