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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Seager.
  • Dutch (de Sager), and North German : occupational name from Dutch, Low German sager ‘sawyer’.
  • French : from the Germanic personal name Sagher, composed of the elements sag- (an element related to Gothic and Old High German words meaning ‘quarrel’, ‘law-suit’) + hari, heri ‘army’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from an agent derivative of German sagen ‘to say’.

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