Almasi, Almasie, Almashi - Hungarian? Slovakian? Other???

Question:Hi, looking for help finding information about the last name (or similar spelling) of Almasi, Almashie, Almasie. We know they came from somewhere in eastern Europe, but can't find any records. Did a quick google search and came across a lot in Hungary... Does this name mean anything (in the original language)? Is this a very common name? Any help would be appreciated! This was my great-grandmother's maiden name.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Hi, looking for help finding information about the last name (or similar spelling) of Almasi, Almashie, Almasie. We know they came from somewhere in eastern Europe, but can't find any records. Did a quick google search and came across a lot in Hungary... Does this name mean anything (in the original language)? Is this a very common name? Any help would be appreciated! This was my great-grandmother's maiden name.

Your great-grandmother was most likely hungarian. Her last name was Almásy or Almási or Almássy these are the most common variants of this surname nowadays. It is not too common but there are quite a few people with this name(i personally know 2). It cant realy be translated, though the "alma" in the name means apple, it means something like "originated from Almás", where Almás is a settlement. Her first name is the hungarian variant of Sofia: Zsófia.
So i guess her name was something like this: Almásy Zsófia (hungarian names are writen in reversed order, last name then first name).

According to www.ancestry.com its Arabic.

Almasi
Arabic: from the adjective almasi ‘diamond-like’.
Hungarian (Almási): see Almasy.
Hope this helps.

Don't use the surname as written by successive generations after an immigrant as indicative of any ethnicity. As Americans, we were lousy spellers in the 1800s and early 1900s. If you want to email her name to me through my profile, I'll search immigration databases and see if we can find her true ethnicity and figure out if it's possible to find more information on her parents and siblings.

Perhaps you are related to the Hungarian researcher, Count László Ede Almásy ( Ladislaus Eduard Almasy, 1895-1951), the real "English Patient."

in Hungarian the name would be pronounced more like "ohl-mah-shee" with accent on first syllable.

Look here:

http://lazarus.elte.hu/~zoltorok/almasy/...