Hunger Family History
Hunger Name Meaning
German: from an ancient Germanic personal name Hun(e)ger composed of the elements hūn ‘bear cub’ + gēr gār ‘spear’. German: ethnic name from Ungar Unger ‘Hungarian’. German: from Middle High German hunger ‘hunger’ applied as a nickname for a thin or undernourished person or sometimes a topographic name from a piece of land named with this word with reference to the infertility of the soil. English: from the Middle English personal name Hunger. This could be the Old Norse name Hungeirr (cognate with 1 above) or a borrowing into Old French of ancient Germanic Hunger (perhaps huni- ‘Hun’ + -garwa ‘ready able’).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022