Hager Family History
- 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’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 638,470 Historical Documents with Hager on Ancestry
- 254,184 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 86,859 Census and Voter Lists
- 31,443 Military Records
- 12,159 Immigration Records
- 253,825 Member Trees
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Number of Hager families
 16 - 30  6 - 15 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hager families
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23 - 44 8 - 22 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Hager census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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