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ANDRÁSSY Hungarianman, warrior... a surname that derives from the personal name "Andreas", meaning manly, and was held by the first of Christ's disciples.
BARSI HungarianName for someone living in a village named Bars. This was the surname of American child actress Judith Barsi (June 6, 1978 - July 25, 1988).
BERES HungarianOccupational name for a farm laborer or casual harvest hand, béres, a derivative of bér 'wage', 'payment'.
BIRGE HungarianOccupational name for a shepherd, from
birga, a variant spelling of
birka 'sheep'.
BÖLÖNI HungarianFrom the place name
Bölön, a village located in what is now Covasna County in Romania. This surname is used mainly among the Székelys.
BON French, HungarianAs a French surname, it is derived from Old French
bon meaning "good", or occasionally from the Latin given name
BONUS (borne by a minor 3rd-century Christian saint martyred at Rome with eleven companions under the Emperor Vespasian... [
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BUMBA Portuguese, Spanish, Galician, Italian, Catalan, Occitan, Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Croatian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Swedish, Latvian, LithuanianVariant of
BOMBA.
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.
DADY HungarianHabitational name for someone from a place called Dad, in Fejér and Komárom counties, or Dada, in Somogy and Szabolcs counties.
GARAY HungarianHabitational name for someone from a place called
Gara.
GUZI HungarianAs 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.
HEGADUSH HungarianMeaning violin maker and violin player deriving from the Hungarian work for violin.
HURBAN English, French, Dutch, German, Sorbian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Hungarian, Romanian, JewishVariant of
URBAN.
JOB English, French, German, HungarianEnglish, 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... [
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KUN Hungarian, JewishHungarian: ethnic name for a member of a Turkic people known in English as the Cumanians (Hungarian kún). ... [
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KUYON Hungarian, RomanianLargely unknown, but may have origins in a village in Poland, called Kujan. There’s records on the name at Ellis Island in New York where it was anglicized to the phonetic, Kuyon. There’s also a split in the main families with the name in the US to another diminutive, Kenyon.... [
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LAHNER German, HungarianHabitational 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, JewishPolish (Laski) and Jewish (from Poland): habitational name from Lasko (now Lask) in Sieradz voivodeship, named with laz, lazy ‘clearing in a forest’. ... [
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LATO Hungarian, PolishFrom Hungarian
látni meaning ‘to see’, hence a nickname for a wise person or an occupational name for a clairvoyant, or possibly for an official who checked the quality of products at markets.... [
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MAGDALENA Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Occitan, Italian, Sicilian, Romanian, Greek, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Croatian, SloveneFrom the given name
MAGDALENA.
MILAN Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, RussianFrom the given name
MILAN, a derivative of names such as
BOHUMIL and
MILOSLAV, containing the Slavic elements
mil or
milu meaning ‘grace, favor, dear’.
OLAH HungarianOláh (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 HungarianWas 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).
PAP HungarianA populaur Hungarian surname meaning Priest. It is also a variant of
Papp.
PAUKOVITS HungarianHungarian or Austrian in origin. From the heilienkruz Austria/Hungary area
POLGAR HungarianHungarian word for citizen. Taken on by Jewish Hungarians during World War Two to avoid Nazi attention for having 'Jewish' last names.
RAK Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Hungarian, JewishPolish, 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... [
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ROMAN Catalan, French, Polish, English, German, Hungarian, Romanian, Ukrainian, BelarusianFrom the Latin personal name
ROMANUS, which originally meant "Roman". This name was borne by several saints, including a 7th-century bishop of Rouen.
ROMANA Catalan, French, Italian, Polish, English (Rare), German, Hungarian, Romanian, Ukrainian, BelarusianFrom the feminine form of the Latin personal name
ROMANUS, which originally meant "Roman".
SÓ HungarianMetonymic occupational name for a salt seller or producer, from
só ‘salt’.
URBAN English, French, German, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Hungarian, JewishFrom a medieval personal name (Latin Urbanus meaning "city dweller", a derivative of urbs meaning "town", "city").
VÁGÓ HungarianOccupational name for a wood- or stonecutter, or butcher, from vágni ‘to cut’.
WILE Hungarianno particular meaning. the word wile means to trick though.
ZALAS Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, Galician, Portuguese, Aragonese, Asturian, Romanian, Hungarian, Greek, BulgarianVariant of
SALAS.
ZALLA Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, Galician, Portuguese, Aragonese, Asturian, Romanian, Hungarian, Greek, BulgarianVariant of
SALA.
ZALLAS Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, Galician, Portuguese, Aragonese, Asturian, Romanian, Hungarian, Greek, BulgarianVariant of
SALAS.
ZSIROS HungarianHungarian surname derived from the Serbo-croation word
žȋr meaning "acorn".