# "Hegyi," a man's last name.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hegyi-a-mans-last-name/193484>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 7, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hegyi-a-mans-last-name/193484 "2003-08-07T01:37:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![xvxdarkknightxvx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/34f0e0/32.png) [@xvxdarkknightxvx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xvxdarkknightxvx)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hegyi-a-mans-last-name/193484/1 "2003-08-07T01:37:35Z")

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I’ll be heading to college at the end of this month, and being the great roommate that I will be, I was wondering from where a person with the last name “Hegyi” most probably hails. I want to impress a certain air of Holmes onto him and pretend to infer from his mannerisms and slight accents of speach that his ancestry most likely comes from \_\_\_\_\_\_ (insert geographical location of highest probability). Hopefully, he’ll think I’m some sort of savant and give me loads of money. 😃 Anyway, there’s the task I lay before you. Have at it, good sirs (and ladies, too)!

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**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hegyi-a-mans-last-name/193484/2 "2003-08-07T01:39:15Z")

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Hungarian. It means ‘mountain’ in Hungarian.

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**Author:** ![xvxdarkknightxvx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/34f0e0/32.png) [@xvxdarkknightxvx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xvxdarkknightxvx)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hegyi-a-mans-last-name/193484/3 "2003-08-07T01:45:42Z")

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Great! Thanks for the reply. Now I need to think of some way to turn this into money.

1. Meet roommate.

2. Chit chat with roommate.

3. Impress him by saying he’s Hungarian.

4. ???

5. PROFIT!!!

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hegyi-a-mans-last-name/193484/4 "2003-08-07T01:48:20Z")

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The [greatest Hungarian-American actor of the past 50 years.](http://www.roberthegyes.com/) (It mght have been Laszlo “Peter Lorre” Lowenstein, but he probably identified himself more Jewish than Hungarian.

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**Author:** ![xvxdarkknightxvx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/34f0e0/32.png) [@xvxdarkknightxvx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xvxdarkknightxvx)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hegyi-a-mans-last-name/193484/5 "2003-08-07T02:05:12Z")

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That guy looks like Josh Hartnett with an afro and a gap. But I’m sure he’s a great actor.