Hungarian

Compiled by Adam Kleizer and Jason Morningstar

In Hungary, the surname is placed first. A woman’s formal name is constructed from her husband’s name by adding a suffix (-né) to his given name. So Mr. Molnár Jakab’s wife would be Molnár Jakabné in polite company, but perhaps Anna at home. Hungarian aristocrats’ names during the Austro-Hungarian imperial period contained a German given name, ‘von’ and the family name. Example: Johann von Báthory. Of course unofficially they used the Hungarian form of their names. (Báthory János in our example.)