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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Fräger) : occupational name for a councilman whose duty was to carry out a poll required to make a council decision, Middle High German vrägaere, an agent derivative of Middle High German vrāgaere ‘to ask’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from an agent derivative of modern German fragen ‘to ask’ (see 1).

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