Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Lunge ‘lungs’ + the agent
suffix -er, most likely one of the surnames selected at random
from vocabulary words by government officials at the time when
surnames became compulsory.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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