Hungarian Name?

Question

Does anyone know the Hungarian spelling for the name Kiver? Thank you

Answer 1

vékonyra- Hungarian - kiver - English.
http://www.babylon.com/definition/beat_out/Hungarian
hope this helps.

Answer 2

Adri’s answer is correct.

It is true that they are 17 „Kiver“ records in the Ellis-island records. Five of them came not from Hungary, and 12 of them came from some place with 4 different recorded spellings: Merk, Meck, Mierk and Mork. (Mérk is a village in eastern Hungary.)

But they are also 168 „Kover“ records there.

„Kover“ is English spelling of „Kövér“ (the meaning is fat or fatso) and it is a common Hungarian surname.

I also have never met anybody having a surname „Kiver“.

I am sure that „Kiver“ is just misspelling of „Kövér“, an error of immigration officer.

„ö" is a vowel non-existing in English and different from „o“ and „i“, so such a mistake of immigration officer is understandable.

This reminds me the old well known joke about a chinese immigrant O'Brien.

You may find the pronunciation of Hungarian alphabet here: http://www.magyarora.com/magyar/shortaudio.html

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Answer 3

Immigration records show that KIVER is the common Hungarian spelling for the name. If you sign up for a free account at http://www.ellisisland.org you can open this link and see the records on all 17 Kivers who came over from Hungary to the US.
http://www.ellisisland.org/search/matchMore.asp?MID=10860246230012206400&order_num=977555122&ORDER_ID=1600110862&LNM=KIVER&PLNM=KIVER&first_kind=1&kind=exact&offset=0&dwpdone=1

Answer 4

Hi! I've never heard this name before, but we usually pronounce the words simply as they are written (pronouncing every letter clearly) - and vica versa.

Maybe I can help you with the vowels:)
i - like the pronounciation in word 'interest' or 'river'
e - like the pronounciation in word 'end' or 'spend'

L.E. : I am sorry, I misunderstood you before:) So if you are looking for the correct spelling (not pronounciation) - as I mentioned above, I don't know such hungarian name (although it can be a real surname), but it might be 'Kövér', f.e. as you asked.