What is "nagy"

Nagy is the most popular Hungarian surname, meaning "great". It is pronounced , roughly like nawdge in American English, and rhyming with "lodge" in British English. Notable people with the surname include:

• Andrea Nagy (born 1971), Hungarian basketball player
• Andrej Prean Nagy (born 1923), Hungarian footballer
• Anikó Nagy (born 1970), Hungarian handball player
• Antal Nagy (disambiguation)
• Balazs Nagy, birth name of Michel Varga
• Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy (1913–1998), Hungarian mathematician
• Bill Nagy (born 1987), former American football center and guard
• Charles Nagy (born 1967), American Major League Baseball pitcher for Cleveland Indians
• Christine Nagy, actress and American radio personality
• Dániel Nagy (disambiguation)
• Dávid Nagy (born 1981), Hungarian guitarist
• Dennis M. Nagy, former director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency
• Ferenc Nagy (1903–1979), Hungarian politician
• Ferenc Nagy (boxer) (1916–1977), Hungarian boxer
• Feró Nagy (born 1946), Hungarian rock singer
• Fritz Nagy (1924–1989), American basketball player
• Gábor Nagy (footballer born 1981), Hungarian football player
• Gábor Nagy (footballer born 1985), Hungarian football player
• Gáspár Nagy (1949–2007), Hungarian poet and writer
• George Nagy (born 1957), Canadian swimmer
• Géza Nagy (1892–1953), Hungarian chess master
• Gregory Nagy, classicist
• Gyula Nagy (born 1924), Hungarian football player
• Ilona Nagy (born 1951), Hungarian handball player
• Imre Nagy (pentathlete) (born 1933), Hungarian pentathlete
• Imre Nagy (1896–1958), politician, twice Prime Minister of Hungary
• István Nagy (disambiguation)
• Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy (1920–2007), therapist and writer on family relations
• János Nagy, Hungarian diplomat
• Jenene Nagy, American installation artist
• John A. Nagy, American author of espionage during the American Revolution
• József Nagy (disambiguation)
• Judit Földing-Nagy, Hungarian marathon runner
• Károly Nagy, Hungarian astronomer, mathematician, chemist and politician
• Kira Nagy (born 1977), Hungarian tennis player
• Ladislav Nagy (born 1979), Slovak ice hockey player
• Lajos Nagy (1326–1382), a.k.a. Louis I of Hungary
• Lajos Nagy (footballer) (born 1975), Hungarian football player
• László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), architect and photographer, instructor at the Bauhaus
• László Nagy (born 1921), Chief Executive of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from 1968–1985
• László Nagy (disambiguation)
• Marcell Deák-Nagy (born 1992), Hungarian sprinter
• Marianna Nagy (figure skater) (born 1929), Hungarian pair skater
• Marianna Nagy (handballer) (born 1957), Hungarian Olympic handball player
• Matt Nagy (born 1978), American football player
• Mike Nagy (born 1948), baseball pitcher
• Mohamed Nagy (artist) (1888-1956), Egyptian artist
• Nicholas Nagy-Talavera (1929–2000), Hungarian-American dissident and professor
• Olivér Nagy (born 1989), Hungarian footballer
• Orsolya Nagy, Hungarian fencer
• Péter Nagy (disambiguation)
• Phyllis Nagy (born 1962), American theater and film director
• Róbert Nagy (speedway rider) (born 1967), Hungarian motorcyclist
• Róbert Nagy (footballer) (born 1987), Hungarian football player
• Robert Nagy (tenor) (1929–2008), American operatic tenor
• Sándor Nagy (footballer) (born 1988), Hungarian football player
• Scott Nagy (born 1966), American college basketball coach
• Shawn Nagy, Canadian musician, Music Historian
• Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, art historian
• Stanislaw Nagy (born 1921), Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• Stefan Nagy (born 1961), Swedish darts player
• Steve Nagy (born 1919), American baseball pitcher
• Tibor Nagy (sprint canoer), Hungarian sprint canoer
• Tibor Nagy (footballer born 1991), Hungarian association football player
• Tibor P. Nagy, Hungarian-American diplomat
• Tímea Nagy (born 1970), épée fencer
• Timea Nagy (born 1978), Hungarian Canadian former sex slave
• Timo Nagy (born 1983), German footballer
• Vilmos Nagy, Hungarian sprint canoer
• Vilmos Nagy de Nagybaczon (1884–1976), Hungarian general
• Vince Nagy (1886–1965), Hungarian politician
• Zoltán Nagy (disambiguation)
• Zsolt Nagy (born 1971), Romanian politician
• Zsolt Nagy (footballer) (born 1979), Hungarian football player
• Zsuzsanna Nagy (born 1986), Hungarian ice dancer

It is also common among ethnic Hungarians in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, where it is spelled Nađ :

• Albert Nađ (born 1974), footballer
• Antonija Nađ (born 1986), sprint canoer
• Kosta Nađ (1911–1986), Yugoslav Army general