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The sanger Surname

sanger Name Meaning and History

  1. German (Sänger), Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German senger, Middle Dutch sangher, sengher, German Sänger ‘singer’, an occupational name for a singer or chorister, or in the case of the Jewish name for a cantor in a synagogue.
  2. English, from Old English sangere ‘singer’, occupational name for a singer or chorister, or nickname for a cheerful person who was always singing.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of sanger Families in the US in 1920
Number of sanger families
 82-161
 28-81		 1-27
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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