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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Major 1.
  • French : from the same personal name as 1, or from a short form of the personal name Amauger, from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements amal ‘strength’, ‘vigor’ + gār, gēr ‘spear’.
  • South German : dialect variant of Maunker, nickname for a morose person.

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