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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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