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Nagy

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Nagy (Hungarian: [ˈnɒɟ]) is a common Hungarian surname, meaning "big".[1]

The surname is also common among ethnic Hungarians in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, where it is spelled Nađ (Serbian Cyrillic: Нађ) and may be transliterated in other languages as Nadj.

The top three most frequent surnames in Hungary are Nagy, Kovács, and Tóth.[2]

In Romania, the name Nagy is sometimes rendered as Naghi.

Nagyová is a Czech-language and Slovak-language feminine surname derived from the Hungarian surname Nagy according to the rules of Czech name formation.

It is transliterated into Russian and Ukrainian as Надь and rendered in English as Nad.

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  1. ^ Farkas, Tamás (2013). Felecan, Oliviu (ed.). "Surnames of ethnonymic origin in the Hungarian language" (PDF). Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Onomastics "Name and Naming". 2. Cluj-Napoca: Editura Mega: 505. ISBN 9786065433434. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  2. ^ Tamás Farkas, A Surname Typology Project: The Lessons Learnt from the Distribution of the Most Frequent Hungarian Surnames