Given name & surname

Levay

Levay is a surname from Hungarian.

Original HungarianLévay

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Levay comes from Hungarian.

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How it developed

From Hungarian Lévay.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Levay’s family of names

In English usage, Levay as a surname was borrowed from the Hungarian form Lévay.

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The ring: across languages.

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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Hungarian

Lévai

Lévai is a surname from Hungarian. It is used in Hungarian and Slovak.

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Slavic

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Slavic

Lenđel

“Pole, Polish”

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Hungarian

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Hungarian

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“groom”

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Gaelic · Literary

Leslie

“garden of hollies” · “from the holly garden; of the gray fortress”

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Hungarian

Legény

“lad”

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Slovene

Lukach

Lukach is a surname from Hungarian, ultimately from Slovene.

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