Family name origins & meanings
- German and Dutch : from a 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’; 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 : probably from an Old English personal name, Hungār.