Actually, the more I look into it, the more I can't tell what the hell Dracula is supposed to be in terms of nationality/ethnicity
Stoker put him in Transylvania, which at the time was part of Hungary. He also made him a descendant of Attila the Hun, and a Székely, which is a Hungarian ethnic group.
But Dracula calls himself a boyar, which is not a Hungarian noble title. It is a term used in Moldavia and Wallachia. And it is from William Wilkinson's book, An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, that Stoker took both the name "Dracula" itself and the back story of one of the Draculas mentioned in the Count's 8 May monologue:
So Stoker gave a Wallachian name and title to a nobleman living in Hungary. The name Dracula makes the Count a member of the House of Draculesti, a family which dominated Wallachia from roughly 1436 to roughly 1659. The most famous Wallachian voivode, Vlad III Dracula, was born in Transylvania, ruled for intermittent periods in Wallachia, and also spent much time in Hungary.
Dracula's speech about his lineage references both Hungarian and Romanian historical figures and speaks disparagingly of the Romanoffs (Russian dynasty) and the Hapsburgs (Austrian dynasty). The only non-English word that I recall Dracula ever saying in the novel is "boyar," which is of Russian etymology.
Interestingly, Stoker removed a direct instance of Dracula being called Hungarian from the story. In the manuscript for 24 June, the peasant mother addresses Dracula as "Hungarian." In the published novel, she instead refers to him as "monster."
The only conclusion I can come to is this: Stoker was an Irishman who had never been to Eastern Europe taking bits and pieces of things that he liked and mixing them into a story. His description of the Borgo Pass, for example, is based on a description of Bicaz Gorge. He wrote Dracula living in Hungary and gave him a Wallachian title. For reasons unknown, he removed a direct mention of Dracula being Hungarian. While we know that Dracula is descended from the Székelys, his name tells us that he must be descended from the Draculesti too. Transylvania was apparently the ominous, "exotic" location of choice for Gothic fiction of the time.
After Dracula was published, Transylvania would become part of Romania. And then, arguably the single most famous Romanian in history became inextricably tied to the character of Count Dracula in pop culture.
Still, did Stoker intend his character to be Hungarian? Probably. But it's possible that I've put more thought into this than Stoker did. He could have just been writing down things he thought were cool, and so Dracula can be whatever you want him to be, really.
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