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Nagy ({{IPA|hu|ˈnɒɟ|lang}}) is a common Hungarian surname, meaning 'big'.{{cite journal|last=Farkas|first=Tamás|editor-last=Felecan|editor-first=Oliviu|year=2013|title=Surnames of ethnonymic origin in the Hungarian language|journal=Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Onomastics "Name and Naming"|publisher=Editura Mega|volume=2|page=505|access-date=15 September 2023|url=https://onomasticafelecan.ro/iconn2/proceedings/5_04_Farkas_Tamas_ICONN_2.pdf|location=Cluj-Napoca|isbn=9786065433434}}

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The surname is also common among ethnic Hungarians in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, where it is spelled Nađ ({{Lang-sr-Cyrl|Нађ}}) and may be transliterated in other languages as Nadj.

In Romania, the name Nagy is sometimes rendered as Naghi. The name also appears in Slovak and Czech languages, where the feminine form is Nagyová. The name Nagy is transliterated into Russian and Ukrainian as Надь and rendered in English as Nad.

The top three most frequent surnames in Hungary are Nagy, Kovács and Tóth. It is also among the top three Hungarian surnames in Romania: (Szabó, Nagy, Kovács).{{cite web |last=Farkas|first=Tamás|title=A Surname Typology Project: The Lessons Learnt from the Distribution of the Most Frequent Hungarian Surnames|url=https://edit.elte.hu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10831/43636/Farkas%20T_Surname%20typology.pdf|publisher=Eötvös Loránd University|date=January 2018}}

A number of Hungarian nationals changed their names meaning 'big' in other languages (Gross/Grosz, Velký/Welky) to 'Nagy' during the Magyarization of personal names.{{cite journal |last=Szigetvári|first=Iván|title=A Névmagyarosítás|journal=Magyar nyelvőr|volume=20|year=1891|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xYp2fQcPwjkC&pg=PA499&dq=Nagy++Grosz+N%C3%A9vmagyaros%C3%ADt%C3%A1s&hl=en|page=499|language=hu}}

Notable people with the surname include:

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People partly or formerly named Nagy

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See also

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  • Nagy Aguilera (born 1968), Dominican Republic boxer
  • Nagy Habib (born 1952), Egyptian professor and surgeon

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Category:Hungarian-language surnames