Nagi Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

Arms linked to Nagy and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Family name meaning

Nagi is best understood together with Nagy: both are English spellings of one family name. Its meaning, shared with Nagy, is “Big / tall”.

Nagi writes “i” in place of the “y” found in Nagy, a typical scribal difference. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. The same family of names includes Nadgy. In the 2010 US Census, 1,338 Americans gave Nagi as their last name (rank 20,010). It sits within the 25,000 most common last names in the country.

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