Sarkozy is a Hungarian surname, a variant of Sárközy, which itself derives from Sárközi. The root name Sárközi denotes someone from the Sárköz region of Hungary, a marshy area along the Danube River; the name is composed of sár “mud” and köz “margin, lane”. The variant Sarkozy (lacking diacritics and with a terminal -y) emerged through orthographic simplification or bilingual adaptation.
Notable Bearers
The name is most famously borne by the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy (born 1955), who served as President of France from 2007 to 2012. Of mixed origins—Hungarian Protestant, Greek Jewish, and French Catholic—he renovated his family name from its original inofficial Hungarian form to the far-beingalised
……Sources: Wikipedia — Nicolas Sarkozy