Hungarian Submitted Surnames

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ANDRÁSSY Hungarian
man, warrior... a surname that derives from the personal name "Andreas", meaning manly, and was held by the first of Christ's disciples.

ANDROS German (Swiss), Hungarian
Derivative of the personal name Andreas. Perhaps a reduced form of Greek Andronikos, Andronidis, or some other similar surname, all patronymics from Andreas.

ANNA English, Irish, Italian, Hungarian
Probably derived from the female first name ANNA.

ANTOS Hungarian

BARSI Hungarian
Name for someone living in a village named Bars. This was the surname of American child actress Judith Barsi (June 6, 1978 - July 25, 1988).

BARTOK Hungarian

BEDNARIK Hungarian (Anglicized)

BELDY Hungarian (Rare, ?)

BELLA Hungarian

BÉNA Hungarian
Nickname from béna ‘lame’, or from a pet form of Benedek.

BENKŐ Hungarian

BERENDI Hungarian

BESE Hungarian (?)

BOGDÁN Hungarian
From the given name Bogdan.

BUDA Hungarian (Rare)
Habitational name from the name of the old capital of Hungary.

CERTIC Hungarian (Modern)
this is my father's family name. I did not grow up with him but have been told his family came here from Hungary. He was born in Marianna Pennsylvania.

CERTICH Hungarian
This surname is found mostly in PA.

CORVINUS Hungarian
dirived from Corvin, maning raven.

CSUHA Hungarian

CSUPÓ Hungarian

DADY Hungarian
Habitational name for someone from a place called Dad, in Fejér and Komárom counties, or Dada, in Somogy and Szabolcs counties.

DEBRECZENI Hungarian

DORCHINCEZ German (Austrian, ?), Hungarian (?)

DROTOS Hungarian

FARGO Hungarian
Comes from the surname Vargo.

FÁTA Hungarian
From the old pagan name FÁTA.

FRANCISZTI Hungarian

GARA Hungarian
Variant of Garay.

GARAY Hungarian
Habitational name for someone from a place called Gara.

GAYDOS Hungarian, English
Anglicized spelling of Hungarian GAJDOS.

GODA Hungarian
From the old Hungarian secular personal name Goda, probably from a short form of Godimir, Godislav, or some other Slavic name.

GORGENYI Hungarian

GUZI Hungarian
As far as known, Guzi means 'friend' but as far as other meanings go, it is unknown. Due to its origin, the last name has two factions of distant family that pronounce it differently- One as "Guh-Zee" as the more uncommon pronunciation that actually follows the origin, and "Goo-Zee" as it is commonly pronounced in English.

GYIRBÁKY Hungarian

GYUJTO Hungarian
Very old Hungarian name, very rare.. means gatherer.

HAGYMÁSI Hungarian

HUCKER English (Modern, Rare), Hungarian (Rare), German (Rare), French (Rare)

JÁVOR Hungarian
Means ''maple''.

JOB English, French, German, Hungarian
English, French, German, and Hungarian from the personal name Iyov or Job, borne by a Biblical character, the central figure in the Book of Job, who was tormented by God and yet refused to forswear Him... [more]

KÁLMÁN Hungarian
From forename Kálmán.

KARAKAS Hungarian
Means "maker of wheels".

KARI Finnish, German (Austrian), Slovene (?), Hungarian, Indian, Marathi
As a Finnish name, it is a topographic and ornamental name from kari "small island", "stony rapids", "sandbar", or "rocky place in a field". This name is found throughout Finland.... [more]

KAUTEN Hungarian
Nickolas Kauten was born July 15, 1890, in Austria - Hungary, ... [more]

KIRÁLYI Hungarian

KITTRICK Hungarian

KLITUS Hungarian (Rare)
Surname

KOBELA Hungarian

KODÁLY Hungarian
Hungarian surname.... [more]

KOHLRUS German, Romanian, Hungarian, ?

KOJONKOFSZKI Hungarian

KOLLÁR Slovak, Hungarian
Variant of Kolar.

KÖRMENDI Hungarian

KOZÁK Slovak, Hungarian
Variant of KOZAK.

KRAJCZ Hungarian

KUN Hungarian, Jewish
Hungarian: ethnic name for a member of a Turkic people known in English as the Cumanians (Hungarian kún). ... [more]

LAHNER German, Hungarian
Habitational name for someone from any of various places called Lahn in Hungary and Germany. In southern Germany and Austria, Lahn denotes a place where there had been an avalanche or landslide, from Middle High German laen, lēne meaning "avalanche".

LASKI Polish, Hungarian, Jewish
Polish (Laski) and Jewish (from Poland): habitational name from Lasko (now Lask) in Sieradz voivodeship, named with laz, lazy ‘clearing in a forest’. ... [more]

LISZT Hungarian
Liszt is a Hungarian surname that literally means "flour".... [more]

LÖVEI Hungarian

MADERA Polish, Slovak, Hungarian
Ethnic name from an old word for a Hungarian (see Magyar).

MAGYARODY Hungarian (Anglicized, Rare)

MAHNYIK Hungarian

MAKÓ Hungarian
Derived from a pet form of the name Makár, which in turn is from the Greek given name Makarios. Could also be from the name Mátyás, the Hungarian form of Matthias.

MATICS Hungarian (?), German (Austrian, ?)

MAYCHAK Hungarian

MEDLI Hungarian

MEGGYES Hungarian
Means "cherry" in Hungarian.

MIKA Hungarian, Polish
Comes from a pet form of a central and eastern European personal name equivalent to Nicholas

MIKE Hungarian
Fro, a pet form of the personal name Miklós, Hungarian form of Nicholas, or possibly from a short form of Mihály, Hungarian form of Michael.

MIKÓ Hungarian
From a pet form of the personal names Miklós (Hungarian form of Nicholas) or Mihály (Hungarian form of Michael).

MIKOS Polish, Hungarian, Greek
From a derivative of a personal name equivalent to Nicholas: Polish Mikolaj, Slovenian Miklavž, or Hungarian Miklós.... [more]

MURAVEZ Hungarian
Most likely a corruption of the surname Moravec.

NEMESNYIK Hungarian

OLAH Hungarian
Oláh (Olah) is a Hungarian surname that means Vlach/Romanian. A similar word is Olasz, meaning "Italian".Hungarian (Oláh): ethnic name from Hungarian oláh ‘Romanian’, old form volách, from vlach ‘Italian’, ‘speaker of a Romance language’.

ORCZY Hungarian
Was the surname of a family of Hungarian nobility (including Baroness Emmuska Orczy, author of *The Scarlet Pimpernel*) originating from the village Orczi (now called Orci).

OROSS Hungarian

PALUGYAE Hungarian

PAP Hungarian
A populaur Hungarian surname meaning Priest. It is also a variant of Papp.

PAUKOVITS Hungarian
Hungarian or Austrian in origin. From the heilienkruz Austria/Hungary area

PINTÉR Hungarian

POLGAR Hungarian
Hungarian word for citizen. Taken on by Jewish Hungarians during World War Two to avoid Nazi attention for having 'Jewish' last names.

PRADL Hungarian, German (Austrian)
Meaning unknown. Possibly originating somewhere in Hungary.

PRATL Hungarian
Possible variant of Pradl.

PUHALÁK Hungarian

RAK Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Hungarian, Jewish
Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Hungarian (Rák), and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from Slavic rak ‘crab’, ‘lobster’, or ‘crayfish’. This was applied as an occupational name for someone who caught and sold crayfish, crabs, or lobsters, or as a nickname to someone thought to resemble such a creature... [more]

RAPAPORT Hungarian
Variant of RAPPAPORT or RAPPORT.

RISKO Hungarian (Anglicized, Modern)

ROCHALLY Hungarian
from hungarian de Rozsalyi

ROCHALLYI Hungarian
Probably from Italian Roccalli

ROMAN Catalan, French, Polish, English, German, Hungarian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Belorussian
From the Latin personal name Romanus, which originally meant "Roman". This name was borne by several saints, including a 7th-century bishop of Rouen.

SANTA Hungarian

SÁRKÁNY Hungarian
Means "dragon" in Hungarian.

SÓ Hungarian
Metonymic occupational name for a salt seller or producer, from só ‘salt’.

SUPERLA Hungarian

SZATHMÁRI Hungarian
Hungarian surname of unknown origin.

SZEGŐ Hungarian

SZENDEFFY Hungarian (Rare)
Possibly derived from Hungarian szende meaning ''meek''.

TABOR English, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Jewish
English: metonymic occupational name for a drummer, from Middle English, Old French tabo(u)r ‘drum’.... [more]

TARCZA Polish, Hungarian
Means "shield" in Polish.

TAX Hungarian

TIMMAR Hungarian (?), Romanian (?)

TROPP Hebrew, Polish, Hungarian

URBAN English, French, German, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Hungarian, Jewish
From a medieval personal name (Latin Urbanus meaning "city dweller", a derivative of urbs meaning "town", "city").

VADÁSZ Hungarian
Hungarian surname meaning "hunter".

VÁGÓ Hungarian
Occupational name for a wood- or stonecutter, or butcher, from vágni ‘to cut’.

VANKÓ Hungarian (Modern)

VARGO Hungarian
Comes from the surname Varga.

VINCE Hungarian
Variant of Vincze.

WILE Hungarian
no particular meaning. the word wile means to trick though.

WZOREK Hungarian

ZÁMBÓ Hungarian

ZSIROS Hungarian
Hungarian surname derived from the Serbo-croation word žȋr meaning "acorn".

ZSOLNAY Hungarian
Hungarian form of the surname Zilinsky.

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