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Last name origin & meaning:

Hungarian (Kertész) and Jewish (from Hungary): occupational name for a gardener, kertész, from kert ‘garden’, a derivative of one of three Hungarian verbs kerül ‘to go around or avoid’, kerít ‘to encircle’, or kering ‘to go around in circles’.

This name appears in the following lists: Nobel Prize Winners