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alger Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from one or more Middle English personal names variously written Alger, Algar, Alcher, Aucher, etc. These represent a falling together of at least three different Continental Germanic and Old English names: Adalgar ‘noble spear’ (Old English Æ{dh}elgar), Albgar ‘elf spear’ (Old English Ælfgar), and Aldgar ‘old spear’ (Old English (E)aldgar). The Continental Germanic forms were brought to England from France by the Normans. Compare the French cognate Auger. In Norfolk and northern England, the source is probably the Old Norse name Álfgeirr ‘elf spear’. The modern English surname is found mainly in East Anglia.
  2. German: from a reduced form of the Germanic personal name Adalgar (see 1 above).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of alger Families in the US in 1920
Number of alger families
 118-234
 40-117		 1-39
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