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The eger Surname

eger Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant of Edgar.
  2. Hungarian: habitational name for someone from any of various places called Eger, in Fehér, Heves, and Zala counties, or former Nyitra county, now in Slovakia. In some cases the name may derive from éger ‘alder’.
  3. German: habitational name from Eger in western Bohemia (Czech name Cheb).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The eger name in History

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Distribution of eger Families in the US in 1920
Number of eger families
 34-66
 12-33		 1-11
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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