Nàgy
surname · Latin script
Nàgy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the most common surname. Recorded meaning: Uncertain. Probably related to Mansi яныг (ânyg).
- HUHungary≈1 in 54(inferred from the name graph)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 370
- RORomania≈1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Hungary (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 290 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 54 (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nagy in HU Hungary, US United States, RO Romania and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Uncertain. Probably related to Mansi яныг (ânyg).
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Nàgy is found
(measured from records)Nàgy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #1 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 54 | 220K | Nagy | 232 |
| US United States | — | 15,497 | 1 in 21K | 16K | Nagy | 290 |
| SK Slovakia | #7 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 372 | — | Nagy | 96 |
| RO Romania | #65 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Nagy | 89 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 1 | Nagy | 89 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 1,101 | 1 in 7.6K | 1.1K | Nagy | 46 |
| CZ Czechia | #721 | 1,101 | 1 in 9.7K | 1.1K | Nagy | 61 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nàgy mean, and where does it come from?
- Uncertain. Probably related to Mansi яныг (ânyg). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Nàgy?
- Mondonomo estimates about 176 thousand people named Nàgy in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nagy. After it come United States, Slovakia, Romania and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Nàgy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,497 people named Nàgy in 2010, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
- How common is Nàgy compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Nàgy is the most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%A0gyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nàgy” — ranked first in Hungary (Nyilvántartó). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.