Mager Family History
Mager Name Meaning
Dutch and German: nickname for a thin man Middle Dutch Middle High German mager ‘thin’. This surname is also found in Poland and Czechia and possibly also in Slovakia (see 3 below). English (Lincolnshire and Middlesex): variant of Major . Romanian and Slovak: variant of Magyar ‘Hungarian’. Slovak name may also be of German origin (see 1 above) or in some cases a habitational name from a placename Malý Mager (Kis-Magyar in Hungarian) in Bratislava County. Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from German mager ‘thin’ (compare 1 above).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022