How common is the surname Magyar?

2,098 people in the United States had the surname Magyar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 147,162 Americans. It ranked 14,274th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Magyar?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Magyar identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

How do you pronounce Magyar?

Magyar is /ˈmæɡjɑɹ/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Magyar getting more or less common?

More common. 2,085 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,098 in 2010, up 0.6%.

The surname Magyar

A Hungarian surname, carried by 2,098 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈmæɡjɑɹ/ 2 syllables Soundex M260

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Magyar is more common than 91.2% of them.

Origin

Hungarian origin

From Hungarian magyar, from Proto-Ugric *mańćɜ (“man, person”).

One of 46 Hungarian surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,098 people named Magyar in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 147,162 Americans. That is up 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,085.

#14,274

rank among US surnames

2,098

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+0.6%

change since 2000 (was #13,396)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#14,267	Petrus	2,100	147,022
#14,268	Devaughn	2,099	147,092
#14,274	Gillian	2,098	147,162
#14,279	Wiersma	2,097	147,232

Who is named Magyar

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Magyar identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Magyar

Magyar has the Soundex code M260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M260.

Other Hungarian surnames

All 46 Hungarian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Magyar come from?: From Hungarian magyar, from Proto-Ugric *mańćɜ (“man, person”).
How common is the surname Magyar?: 2,098 people in the United States had the surname Magyar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 147,162 Americans. It ranked 14,274th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Magyar?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Magyar identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
How do you pronounce Magyar?: Magyar is /ˈmæɡjɑɹ/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Magyar getting more or less common?: More common. 2,085 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,098 in 2010, up 0.6%.