Lengyel Family History

Hungarian: ethnic name for a Pole from Hungarian lengyel ‘Polish’. The name was used to denote not only ethnic Poles but also Polish speakers and people who had lived in Poland.

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