Nagy

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

In Romania, the name Nagy is sometimes rendered as Naghi. The name also appears in Slovak and Czech languages, where the feminine form is Nagyová. The name Nagy is transliterated into Russian and Ukrainian as Надь and rendered in English as Nad.

The top three most frequent surnames in Hungary are Nagy, Kovács and Tóth. It is also among the top three Hungarian surnames in Romania: (Szabó, Nagy, Kovács).

A number of Hungarian nationals changed their names meaning 'big' in other languages (Gross/Grosz, Velký/Welky) to 'Nagy' during the Magyarization of personal names.

Notable people with the surname include:

Arts

Attila Nagy (actor) (1933–1992), Hungarian actor
Bella Nagy (1879–1947), Hungarian actress
Dávid Nagy (guitarist) (born 1981), Hungarian guitarist
Feró Nagy (born 1946), Hungarian rock singer
Gáspár Nagy (1949–2007), Hungarian poet and writer
Ibolya Nagy (1864–1946), Hungarian actress
István Nagy (actor) (1909–1976), Hungarian actor
István Nagy (painter) (1873–1937), Hungarian painter
Jenene Nagy, American installation artist
Judita Nagyová, Slovak mezzo-soprano
László Nagy (poet) (1925–1978), Hungarian poet
Peter Nagy (artist) (born 1959), American artist
Peter Nagy (singer) (born 1959), Slovak musician
Phyllis Nagy (born 1962), American theater and film director
Robert Nagy (tenor) (1929–2008), American opera singer

Sports

Association football

Ádám Nagy (born 1995), Hungarian footballer
Andrej Prean Nagy (1923–1997), Hungarian footballer
Antal Nagy (footballer born 1944), Hungarian footballer
Antal Nagy (footballer born 1956), Hungarian footballer
Dániel Nagy (footballer, born 1984), Hungarian footballer
Dániel Nagy (footballer, born 1991), Hungarian footballer
Gábor Nagy (footballer born 1981), Hungarian footballer
Gábor Nagy (footballer born 1985), Hungarian footballer
Gyula Nagy (1924–1996), Hungarian footballer
István Nagy (footballer, born 1939) (1939–1999), Hungarian footballer
István Nagy (footballer, born 1986), Hungarian footballer
János Nagy (footballer) (born 1992), Hungarian footballer
József Nagy (footballer, born 1892), Hungarian football coach
József Nagy (footballer, born 1960), Hungarian footballer
József Nagy (footballer, born 1988), Hungarian footballer
Lajos Nagy (footballer) (born 1975), Hungarian footballer
László Nagy (footballer) (born 1949), Hungarian footballer
Olivér Nagy (born 1989), Hungarian footballer
Péter Nagy (footballer) (born 1996), Slovak footballer
Róbert Nagy (footballer) (born 1987), Hungarian footballer
Sándor Nagy (footballer) (born 1988), Hungarian footballer
Tibor Nagy (footballer born 1991), Hungarian footballer
Timo Nagy (born 1983), German footballer
Zoltán Nagy (footballer born 1974), Hungarian football player and coach
Zoltán Nagy (footballer born 1985), Hungarian footballer
Zsolt Nagy (footballer, born 1979), Hungarian footballer
Zsolt Nagy (footballer, born 1993), Hungarian footballer

Other sports

Adrienn Nagy (born 2001), Hungarian tennis player
Andrea Nagy (born 1971), Hungarian basketball player
Anikó Nagy (born 1970), Hungarian handball player
Béla Nagy (archer) (1943–2025), Hungarian archer
Bill Nagy (American football) (born 1987), American football center and guard
Charles Nagy (born 1967), American baseball pitcher
Dániel Nagy (racing driver) (born 1998), Hungarian racing driver
Dávid Nagy (fencer) (born 1999), Hungarian fencer
Dick Nagy (1942–2021), American college basketball coach
Ferenc Nagy (boxer) (1916–1977), Hungarian boxer
Fritz Nagy (1924–1989), American basketball player
George Nagy (born 1957), Canadian swimmer
Géza Nagy (1892–1953), Hungarian chess master
György Nagy (1924–2004), Hungarian basketball player
György Nagy (curler) (born 1965), Hungarian curler
Henrieta Nagyová (born 1978), Slovak tennis player
Ilona Nagy (born 1951), Hungarian handball player
Imre Nagy (pentathlete) (1933–2013), Hungarian pentathlete
Imre Nagy (fencer) (1941–2011), Canadian fencer
István Nagy (athlete) (born 1959), Hungarian sprinter
Ján Nagy (1945–2025), Slovak weightlifter
József Nagy (athlete) (1884–1952), Hungarian athlete
József Nagy (boxer, born 1934), Hungarian boxer
József Nagy (boxer, born 1953), Hungarian boxer
József Nagy (boxer, born 1975), Hungarian boxer
Kira Nagy (born 1977), Hungarian tennis player
Krisztina Nagy, Hungarian table tennis player
Ladislav Nagy (born 1979), Slovak ice hockey player
László Nagy (canoeist), Hungarian sprint canoeist
László Nagy (figure skater) (1927–2005), Hungarian figure skater
László Nagy (handballer) (born 1981), Hungarian handball player
Marianna Nagy (figure skater) (1929–2011), Hungarian pair skater
Marianna Nagy (handballer) (born 1957), Hungarian handball player
Matt Nagy (born 1978), American football coach and quarterback
Mike Nagy (born 1948), American baseball pitcher
Orsolya Nagy (born 1977), Hungarian fencer
Peter Nagy (canoeist) (born 1964), Slovak slalom canoeist
Péter Nagy (volleyball) (born 1984), Hungarian volleyball player
Péter Nagy (weightlifter) (born 1986), Hungarian weightlifter
Péter Nagy (tennis) (born 1992), Hungarian tennis player
Róbert Nagy (cyclist) (born 1972), Slovak cyclist
Róbert Nagy (speedway rider) (born 1967), Hungarian motorcycle speedway rider
Róbert Nagy (weightlifter) (born 1940), Hungarian weightlifter
Robert Nagy (windsurfer) (born 1963), French windsurfer
Scott Nagy (born 1966), American college basketball coach
Stefan Nagy (born 1961), Swedish darts player
Steve Nagy (baseball) (1919–2016), American baseball player
Tibor Nagy (canoeist), Hungarian sprint canoeist
Tímea Nagy (born 1970), Hungarian fencer
Vilmos Nagy, Hungarian sprint canoer
Zoltán Nagy (ice hockey) (born 1955), Romanian ice hockey player
Zsuzsanna Nagy (born 1986), Hungarian ice dancer

Other

Antal Nagy de Buda, Hungarian petty nobleman
Dennis M. Nagy, director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency
Ferenc Nagy (1903–1979), Hungarian politician
Gregory Nagy (born 1942), American classical scholar
Imre Nagy (1896–1958), Hungarian politician, twice Prime Minister of Hungary
István Nagy (politician, born 1954) (born 1954), Hungarian politician
István Nagy (politician, born 1967) (born 1967), Hungarian agrarian engineer and politician
Jana Nagyová (actress) (born 1959), Slovak actress
Jana Nagyová (politician) (born 1970), Czech politician
János Nagy (diplomat) (born 1928), Hungarian diplomat and politician
John A. Nagy, American espionage author
József Nagy (politician) (born 1968), Slovak economist politician
Károly Nagy, Hungarian astronomer, mathematician, chemist and politician
Lajos Nagy aka Louis I of Hungary (1326–1382), Hungarian king
László Nagy (Scouting) (1921–2009), Hungarian-Swiss jurist, writer and scouting pioneer
László B. Nagy (born 1958), Hungarian politician
Mária J. Nagy (1934–2025), Hungarian academic
Nicholas Nagy-Talavera (1929–2000), Hungarian-American dissident and professor
Stanislaw Nagy (1921–2013), Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
Tibor P. Nagy (born 1949), Hungarian-American diplomat
Tímea Nagy (activist) (born 1978), Hungarian-Canadian activist
Vilmos Nagy de Nagybaczon (1884–1976), Hungarian general
Vince Nagy (1886–1965), Hungarian politician
Zsolt Nagy (politician) (born 1971), Romanian politician

People partly or formerly named Nagy

Michel Varga (born Balázs Nagy, 1927–2015), Hungarian-French activist
Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy (1913–1998), Hungarian mathematician
Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy (1920–2007), therapist and writer on family relations
Jana Nečasová (born Jana Nagyová, 1964), Czech politician
Judit Földing-Nagy, Hungarian marathon runner
Gábor Takács-Nagy (born 1956), Hungarian violinist and conductor
László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), Hungarian painter and photographer
Marcell Deák-Nagy (born 1992), Hungarian sprinter
Sibyl Moholy-Nagy (1903–1971), German-American art historian

References

Farkas, Tamás. (2013). "Surnames of ethnonymic origin in the Hungarian language". Editura Mega.
Farkas, Tamás. (January 2018). "A Surname Typology Project: The Lessons Learnt from the Distribution of the Most Frequent Hungarian Surnames". [[Eötvös Loránd University]].
Szigetvári, Iván. (1891). "A Névmagyarosítás". Magyar nyelvőr.

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