Győr és Kapuvár 18. századi családnevei
Date: 2009
Subject: családnév
18. sz.
Győr
Kapuvár
névgyakoriság
etimológia
magyar
német
szláv
18. sz.
Győr
Kapuvár
névgyakoriság
etimológia
magyar
német
szláv
Abstract:
MÁRIA VARGA-HORVÁTH, 18th-century family names of Gy r and Kapuvár //
The author compares the 18th-century family names of Gy r and those of Kapuvár, two
Transdanubian settlements. In fact, family names of four distinct types of settlements are examined
in the paper, since 18th-century inhabitants of Gy r living outside and inside the town walls were
clearly separated and on the site of today’s Kapuvár there were at that time two settlements: the
market town of Kapuvár and the village of Garta. Differences in social, ethnic and other factors are
well reflected in the name stock. The frequency of names, the percentages of the ten most frequent
names, the results of the examination of name origins all mirror an altering, increasing population.
The fact that many Hungarian surnames occur only once in the name stock and that there are many
German and Slavic family names in the corpus suggest that there must have been significant
movements of population in both towns, as a result of which name frequency is relatively low in
both cases. Semantic analysis shows that in the observed period the most frequent family names in
Gy r were those derived from place-names, whilst in Kapuvár surnames derived from names of
occupations formed the most typical family names.