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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a sly, tricky, or unreliable man (see Karg).
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Karg 2.
  • German and Czech : habitational name for someone from a place called Kargen in Bavaria.

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