The name of Pusztaszemes originates from the words szem (English: grain, eye, core) and puszta because this area depopulated during the Turkish occupation.

[2] It lies on the Outer Somogy Hill Range, 10 km south of Balatonföldvár, in the southern end of the Kőröshegy-Pusztaszemes Valley.

The first flows to the North in the Lake Balaton, the second to the South in the River Koppány.

After the Siege of Buda the Hungarian nobility invited Christian settlers (mostly Roman Catholic) to Hungary.

The landowner was the Széchényi family, but several residents had smaller portions of lands.