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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Näger) : occupational name for a tailor or embroiderer, from an agent derivative of Middle High German næjen ‘to sew’, ‘to embroider’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Nagar (showing alteration of the final vowel under Yiddish influence).

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