Tóth

This article is about the surname Tóth or Toth. For other uses, see Toth (disambiguation).

Tóth, Tót or Toth is a Hungarian ethnonymic surname that was an older term related to the "Tótok" meaning Slavs (of Slavonia i.e. Croats, also Slovenes and Slovaks). "Toth" may also be a surname of German origin.[1]

Tót has also been a more general Slavic reference, per toponyms like Tótszerdahely and Tótszentmárton on the southern border of Hungary.[2]

Tóth is among the top three most frequent surnames in Hungary.[3]

People with the surname

Notable people with the name include:

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  • Rudy Toth (1925–2009), Slovak-Canadian composer, arranger, conductor, pianist, and cimbalom player

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See also

  • All pages with titles containing Toth
  • Thoth

References

  1. ^ Hanks, Patrick (8 May 2003). Dictionary of American Family Names: 3-Volume Set. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-508137-4.
  2. ^ Vidmarović, Đuro (2010). "Zvonimir Bartolić i Hrvati u susjednim zemljama s posebnim osvrtom na pomurske Hrvate u Mađarskoj" [Zvonimir Bartolić and the Croats in neighboring countries with special overview of the Croats coming from the Pomurje region and living in Hungary]. KAJ: Literature, Art and Culture Periodical (in Croatian). 43 (212) (1–2). Zagreb, Croatia: Kajkavian Parliament - Association for Promotion of Science and Arts: 63–64. ISSN 1848-7920.
  3. ^ Tamás Farkas, A Surname Typology Project: The Lessons Learnt from the Distribution of the Most Frequent Hungarian Surnames, 2018
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