Has anybody ever heard of the last name SZEREDY?

Question

Has anybody ever heard of the last name SZEREDY?

Answer 1

hello

yes! it is a common hungarian name. in the 15-16.century it was a "trend" really between the wealthy families to give themselves family names. they needed family name to keep their fortune within the family and everyone to know their origin. it was a period when many families got rich so they generated the family name from geographycal or any other sources by taking the original word and adding a "y"-today would add an "i" because the writng changed since then but some of the original name were kept - like this one.(ex. untill the 19.th century it was used the name "Galotzy".then it was modified to "Galoczy" and now it is used as "Galoci" modifying the "y" to "i" and "tz" to "c" as their pronunciation is the same in hungarian). so the name could originates from "szerda"(wednesday) but i think it is more likely that it originates from the town "sered" in slovachia and it was formed by taking the original Sered+Y and after it, it was modified to hungarian => Szeredy.

Answer 2

Name Usage Frequency: SZEREDY

The following table summarizes the usage of "SZEREDY" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name Usage per 100 million - 170 Persons in USA

Szeredy Last name rank in USA - 45,201

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Entry on Rootsweb :-

Researching the names "Sheredy/Szeredy(how it was spelled when they came over). The question I have right now is,  I am having a tough time finding any information before my ggrandparents----Szymon/Simon Szeredy/Sheredy

and Katarzya Mroczka he was born 15, March 1884 and died in 14 September 1955. I can't find when the family came over and as my grandfather remembers it, Szymon and Katarzyna are the ones who came over from Poland, on the Wall of Honor at Ellis Island it states that the following Szymon Szeredy Family were from Austria/Poland.

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th...

And

George Sapucek took Benedictine vows and, as is the religious custom, latinized his first name as Justinian. Further, as the Hungarian law required, he altered his Slovak family name to the Hungarian "Szeredy," a word that happens to mean "Wednesday."

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