The most frequent Hungarian surnames. A study of some aspects of contrastive surname typology

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The most frequent Hungarian surnames. A study of some aspects of contrastive surname typology

Tamás Farkas



Eötvös Loránd university (ELTE),
Budapest, Hungary


Abstract: In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in geolinguistic and typological-statistical research with an international focus in the field of surname studies. This paper will look at some of the major questions and possibilities in the case of the Hungarian surname stock. I shall carry out a typological-statistical analysis concentrating on the 100 most common surnames, focusing on certain methodological aspects, which, in my view, have received less than due attention in earlier studies. The research also aims to point out some characteristics of the surname stock in question in comparison with other European surname systems. Keywords: surname, typology, frequency, methodology, geolinguistic, Hungarian.

Magyar névkutatás a 21. század elején

https://www.academia.edu/21298585/Magyar_névkutatás_a_21._század_elején_Hungarian_Onomastics_at_the_Beginning_of_the_21st_Century_

Magyar névkutatás a 21. század elején [Hungarian Onomastics at the Beginning of the 21st Century]

Szerkesztette: Farkas Tamás és Slíz Mariann


      

Surnames of Ethnonymic Origin in the Hungarian Language

https://www.academia.edu/11069376/Surnames_of_Ethnonymic_Origin_in_the_Hungarian_Language

by Tamas Farkas from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Surnames of ethnonymic origin in the Hungarian language

 Abstract:

 Surnames originating from ethnonyms form a characteristic part of the Hungarian surname stock, in comparison with surname corpuses of other European nations. Among the 10 most frequent surnames in Hungary, 3 are of this type: Tóth (= Slavic, Slovak), Horvát (= Croat),  Német (= German). These names make up at most 0.5% of the surname stock, yet their proportion could be estimated at about 7–8%. An analysis is presented here of the composition of the stock of these Hungarian surnames; the background and motivations for their creation; a historical perspective on the changes in their category; and the characteristics of their geographical distribution.

Keywords:  ethnonym, family name, etymology, name geography, Hungarian.