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egger Name Meaning and History

  1. South German: topographic name for someone who lived on a corner (either a street corner, or the corner of a valley running around a mountain), from an altered form of Eck + the suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant.
  2. Dutch and German: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements agi ‘point (of a sword)’ + heri ‘army’.
  3. South German(Swabia): occupational name for a farmer, from an agent derivative of eggen ‘to harrow’.
  4. English: variant of Edgar 1.

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

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Distribution of egger Families in the US in 1920
Number of egger families
 37-71
 13-36		 1-12
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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