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hunger Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Dutch: from a Germanic personal name, Hun(e)ger, composed of the elements hun ‘bear cub’ + ger, gar ‘spear’.
  2. German: ethnic name from Ungar, Unger ‘Hungarian’.
  3. German: from Middle High German hunger ‘hunger’; a nickname for a thin or undernourished person, or sometimes a topographic name from a piece of land named with this word with reference to the infertility of the soil.
  4. English: probably from an Old English personal name, Hungar.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of hunger Families in the US in 1920
Number of hunger families
 21-39
 8-20
 1-7
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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