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badger Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from a place in Shropshire named Badger, probably from an unattested Old English personal name Bæcg + Old English ofer ‘ridge’.
  2. occupational name for a maker of bags (see Bagge 1) or for a peddler who carried his wares about with him in a bag. It is unlikely that the surname has anything to do with the animal (see Brock 2), which was not known by this name until the 16th century.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of badger Families in the US in 1920
Number of badger families
 69-136
 24-68		 1-23
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Family History James Franklin Badger 25
Miss Birdie Badger mackmack 0
Badger/Burnett Connection in Kentucky/Indiana sagieseler 0
Josephine "Badger" Luther shortsmoke 1
Hunting down Badger Info Joanne Coles 5
Badgers of New Hampshire Joanne Coles 7
Trace western Pa Badgers David Willis Badger 13
Charles Badger, 9th VA, Co. I Darleen24 3
Death of Mr. Clarence Badger in Panama davwayell 0
TEXAS BADGERS Brooke Badger 7
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