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’.
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’.