Tóth Explained
Tóth (sometimes Tót or Toth) is a Hungarian surname that was an older term meaning "Slovak" or "Slavonian", since one of the Hungarian names for both Slovakia and Slavonia (Slavic parts of Kingdom of Hungary) was Tóthország.
Tót has also been a more general Slavic reference, per toponyms like Tótszerdahely and Tótszentmárton on the southern border of Hungary.[1]
Tóth is among the top three most frequent surnames in Hungary.[2]
People with the surname
Notable people with the name include:
- Alex Toth (1928–2006), American cartoonist
- Amarissa Kiara Tóth (born 2003), Hungarian tennis player
- Amerigo Tot (1909–1984), Hungarian sculptor born Imre Tóth
- Saint Alexis Toth (1853–1909), Slovakian priest of the Russian Orthodox church who served in the United States
- Andre de Toth (1913–2002), Hungarian-American filmmaker
- Andrea Tóth (born 1980), Hungarian water polo player
- Árpád Tóth (1886–1928), Hungarian poet
- Béla Tóth (born 1943), Hungarian and Italian chess master
- Brett Toth (born 1996), American football player
- Charles Toth (1879-?), American long-distance swimmer
- Claudia Toth Fischer (born 1981), Austrian curler
- Ed Toth, American drummer
- Eric Justin Toth (born 1982), suspected child pornographer and FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive
- Ferenc Tóth (sport wrestler) (1928–2003), Hungarian Greco-Roman wrestler
- Ferenc Tóth (pilot), Hungarian glider aerobatic champion
- Gabi Tóth (born 1988), Hungarian singer
- Ildikó Tóth (actress) (born 1966), Hungarian actress
- Iván Tóth (born 1971), Hungarian retired football goalkeeper
- Ivett Tóth (born 1998), Hungarian figure skater
- Jennifer Toth (born 1967), English journalist and writer
- Jerry Toth (1928–1999), Canadian composer and woodwind player
- Jon Toth (born 1994), American football player
- József Tóth (footballer, born 1929) (1929–2017), Hungarian footballer who played in the 1954 FIFA World Cup
- József Tóth (hydrogeologist) (born 1933), Canadian scientist
- József Tóth (footballer, born 1951) (1951–2022), Hungarian footballer who played in the 1978 and 1982 FIFA World Cup
- József Tóth (geographer) (1940–2013), Hungarian geographer and academic
- József Tóth (politician, born 1950) (born 1950), Hungarian Member of Parliament (MSZP) and Mayor of Angyalföld
- József Tóth (politician, born 1953) (born 1953), Hungarian Member of Parliament (Fidesz) and Mayor of Tiszanána
- Juraj Tóth (born 1975), Slovak astronomer
- Kaleb Toth (born 1977), Canadian lacrosse player
- Kálmán Tóth (poet) (1831–1891), Hungarian poet
- Kevin Toth (born 1967), American shot putter
- László Tóth or Laszlo Toth, multiple persons
- László Toroczkai, born László Tóth 1978, Hungarian politician
- Lucio Toth, Italian politician
- Mihály Tóth II (born 1974), Hungarian footballer
- Mike Toth (born 1963), Canadian sports anchor
- Noémi Tóth (born 1976), Italian water polo player
- Paolo Toth (born 1941), Italian computer scientist and engineer
- Peter Toth (born 1940), Brazilian chess master
- Peter Wolf Toth (born 1947), American sculptor
- Steve Toth (born 1960), American politician
- Taylor Toth (born 1988), American figure skater
- Tamás Tóth (born 1989), Hungarian triathlete
- Tímea Tóth (born 1980), Hungarian handballer
- Timea Toth (swimmer) (born 1968), Israeli retired Olympic swimmer
- Tom Toth (born 1962), American football player
- Viktoria Orsi Toth (born 1990), Italian beach volleyball player
- Zsófia Tóth (born 1989), Hungarian triathlete
See also
Notes and References
- Zvonimir Bartolić i Hrvati u susjednim zemljama s posebnim osvrtom na pomurske Hrvate u Mađarskoj . hr . Zvonimir Bartolić and the Croats in neighboring countries with special overview of the Croats coming from the Pomurje region and living in Hungary . Đuro . Vidmarović . KAJ: Literature, Art and Culture Periodical . Kajkavian Parliament - Association for Promotion of Science and Arts . Zagreb, Croatia . 1848-7920 . 43 (212) . 1–2 . 2010 . 63–64.
- Tamás Farkas, A Surname Typology Project: The Lessons Learnt from the Distribution of the Most Frequent Hungarian Surnames
