Who is Péter Magyar, the former Orbán ally heading for power in Hungary?
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Wait... isn't Magyar what Hungarians call themselves?
That's like having a President America in the USA.
Is that really uncommon in most parts of the world? In mittel Europe, nationalities as surnames are quite common. There are more than 20k people in Hungary with the surname "Magyar". The most common surname in Croatia is "Horvat" which means Croatian.
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Usually, I'd expect Hungarian families outside of 'core' Hungary to be named Magyar. Otherwise it wouldn't be useful for telling families apart. E.g. in Germany people named Westphal usually don't live in Westphalia, but in the north-east, where people from Westphalia moved during the east settlement in the middle age.
Checking the most common surnames in Europe it's not as common as I expected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_most_common_surnames_in_European_countries
It's very common only in Slovenia and Slovakia beside Croatia and Hungary. So it's a regional thing. Croatia and Hungary was a personal union from the 12th century, Slovakia was part of the Kingdom of Hungary through most of its existence.
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President America sounds like an alternative name to Cheeseburger Freedom Man
There is a word for people having jobs their name destined them to have, and there is a whole community on Lemmy dedicated to it that I found because of exactly what you're pointing out.
I'll try to find it and report back
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That's the one!
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The word is aptronym or aptonym.