From Old Hungarian mogyër. The first element (‘mogy-’) is likely from Proto-Ugric ‘*mańćɜ’ (“man, person”). The second element, ‘-ër’ (“man”), retained in ‘ember’ (“man”) and ‘férj’ (“husband”), from Proto-Uralic ‘*irkä’ or ‘*ürkä’ (“man, son, boy”).
So Hungarians were super lazy in the choice of the last names, not even picking the profession or patronymic, but just ‘man’.
wait … are they related?
Magyar is an incredibly common Hungarian family name, it means “Hungarian”.
It also basically means ‘man’ or ‘person’:
So Hungarians were super lazy in the choice of the last names, not even picking the profession or patronymic, but just ‘man’.
Magyar(Hungarian) is his call sign. It’s a funny coincidence since both of them are political targets of the Orban regime.