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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a market trader, Middle High Germanmengære, mangære (from Late Latin mango ‘salesman’, with the addition of the Germanic agent suffix).
  • German : from the Germanic personal name Meginger, composed of magin ‘might’, ‘force’ + gār , gēr ‘spear’.

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