Hegedus Family History

Hungarian (Hegedűs and Hegedüs): occupational name for a player on the fiddle hegedü. This surname is also found in Slovakia (compare 2 below).

Croatian and Slovenian (Hegeduš); Slovak (Hegedűš, Hegedüš, and Hegeduš): occupational name from hegeduš ‘fiddler’, a dialect loanword from Hungarian hegedűs, or in Slovakia, a Slavicized form of the Hungarian surnames Hegedűs and Hegedüs (see 1 above).

Jewish (from Hungary; Hegedűs and Hegedüs): adoption of the name in 1 above either as a Hungarian calque of the formerly used German-based surname or because the Hungarian surname (or word) has some sounds in common with the original surname.