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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and German : nickname for a thin man, Middle Dutch, Middle High German mager. This name also occurs frequently in western Slavic countries, especially Bohemia and Poland.
  • English : variant of Major.
  • Czech : ethnic name for a Hungarian (see Magyar).

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