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Karg

Feminine
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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname from Middle High German karc ‘cunning’ ‘sly’, ‘tricky’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a mean person, from Yiddish karg(er) ‘stingy’, ‘niggardly’ (from Middle High German karc ‘cunning’).

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