The tiger Surname

tiger Name Meaning and History

Irish: variant of Taggart in County Dublin.
French: from a Germanic personal name composed of the unattested word þeudo ‘people’, ‘nation’ + gar, ger ‘spear’.
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Tiger, Yiddish tiger ‘tiger’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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The tiger name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the tiger family name as far back in history as possible.

tiger Family Facts

Name Distribution (US)Name Distribution (UK)Name Distribution (Scotland)Place of Origin Immigration Year Ports of Departure Life Expectancy Occupations Civil War Service

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Distribution of tiger Families in the US in 1920

Number of tiger families

38-74

13-37

1-12

Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Looking for info on Great Grandmother Jane G Tiger	sharoncrabtree60	0
Henry Tiger's family history	don tiger	3
Jim Tiger arrested for the murder of Marshal Edward Fink	maryachtrh	1
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Rev. George TIGER obit 1948 OK	Obits101	0
Miller TIGER Killed 1940 OK	Obits101	0
Roley TIGER obit 1957 OK	Obits101	0

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