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In onomastics the sociological aspect of consideration can be adopted, for the most part,
when one observes Christian names. It is still problematic, however, whether family names display
any difference according to denomination, and if they do, what factors (settling, immigration, reCatholicization) have formed them in social history. This study suggests that in the 18th century
not only people who belonged to the Reformed Church, but also evangelical and orthodox persons
bore mostly Hungarian family names. Half of Jewish people preserved their traditional family
names based on the Old Testament, the other half adopted either Yiddish or Hungarian family
names (Andó, Czimbalmos, Farkas, Ferentz, Szarvas, Zsidó). Almost all of the Gypsies settled in
or infiltrated into Hungary used Hungarian family names, half of which developed from names of
settlements (Árvai, Darnoczj, Henye, Hodosy etc.).
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