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The gnagy Surname

gnagy Name Meaning and History

  1. Hungarian: from the common Hungarian family name Nagy, with the addition of the letter g- representing the first character of someone’s initials, their place of origin, or a nickname. This method of altering the most frequent surnames such as Kis ‘small’ (see Kiss), Nagy ‘big’, Kovács ‘smith’ (see Kovacs), or Szabo ‘tailor’ is a peculiar feature of Hungarian naming.
  2. Possibly an altered spelling of Swiss German Gnägi (see Gnagey 1).

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Distribution of gnagy Families in the US in 1920
Number of gnagy families
 5-8
 2-4
 1
 0
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