Dictionary of Family Names in the Visegrad Countries
TÓTH
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| Origin | of Hungarian origin |
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| Type | Family name referring to some connection with an ethnic group |
| Family name referring to internal or external characteristics, circumstances or event |
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The name is derived from the Hungarian ethnonym tót meaning ’a Slavic person living in Hungary, mainly Slavonic, Slovene, Slovak’ (old spelling) and refers to a similarity or a connection (descendence or other) with the people or the area they inhabit. Variants: Tót, Tot, Toth. |