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karg Name Meaning and History

  1. German: nickname from Middle High German karc ‘cunning’ ‘sly’, ‘tricky’.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a mean person, from Yiddish karg(er) ‘stingy’, ‘niggardly’ (from Middle High German karc ‘cunning’).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of karg Families in the US in 1920
Number of karg families
 28-53
 10-27
 1-9
 0
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