Last name origins & meanings:
- Hungarian (Kádár) and Slovak (Kadár): occupational name for a cooper, from Hungarian kádár, a
Slavic loanword.
- Hungarian: from a personal name in Hun
mythology. In 19th-century Hungarian romantic literature this was
taken as a common noun meaning ‘judge’ or ‘chieftain’, from the time
of the Magyar conquest of the Carpathian Basin.
- Jewish: in
some cases an adoption of the Hungarian name; in others a variant of
Kader.
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