What is "palffy"

Pálffy or Palffy is a Hungarian surname which means "son of Pál". Notable people with the surname include:

• Žigmund Pálffy (born 1972), Slovak ice hockey player
• David Palffy (born 1969), Canadian actor of Hungarian extraction
• Lipót Pálffy de Erdőd (1764–1825), Major General
• Ferdinand Palffy von Erdöd (1774–1840), mining engineer in the Austrian Empire and Vienna Theatre manager
• Fidél Pálffy (1895–1946), Hungarian nobleman who was a leading supporter of Nazism in Hungary
• János Pálffy (1664–1751), Hungarian noble, Imperial Field marshal and Palatine of Hungary