Does the name of Hungary’s next PM really translate as Peter Hungarian?

In short: yes. And although his party’s election victory a few weeks ago was truly unprecedented, Péter Magyar’s last name is not nearly as unique as it may sound to foreign ears.

A quick overview of the history of Hungarian surnames will likely shed some light on why this is so.

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