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Hager Name Meaning
Dutch and North German: from a Germanic personal name composed
of hag ‘hedge’, ‘enclosure’ + hari, heri ‘army’.from a Germanic personal name, Hadugar, composed of
the elements hadu- ‘combat’, ‘strife’ + gari, from
garwa ‘ready’, ‘eager’.German (also Häger):
topographic name for someone who lived by a hedged or fenced
enclosure, Middle High German hac.German and Jewish
(Ashkenazic): nickname for a thin man, from Middle High German, German
hager ‘thin’, ‘gaunt’.English: occupational name
for a woodcutter, from an agent derivative of Middle English
haggen ‘to cut or chop’. RW, admEntry
re-organized.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Hager Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hager families
 141 - 280  48 - 140 |
 1 - 47  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hager families
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16 - 30 6 - 15 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hager families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Hager Family Origin
Hager Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Hager
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Hager Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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