I wonder why Edit: interesting, this seems to be mainly an English phenomenon, a lot of examples but they are all from other languages. The exception being Biggs, although I’ve never met a Biggs.
I wonder why Edit: interesting, this seems to be mainly an English phenomenon, a lot of examples but they are all from other languages. The exception being Biggs, although I’ve never met a Biggs.
‘Nagy’ (which is one syllable, and ‘gy’ means something like a voiced, wet ‘d’, like the mid section of your tongue against the roof of your mouth) is one of the most common Hungarian surnames. It means ‘big’. I have never heard of (the equivalent of) ‘Tall’, but ‘Long’ exists.