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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Sänger), Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle High German senger, Middle Dutch sangher, sengher, German Sänger ‘singer’, an occupational name for a singer or chorister, or in the case of the Jewish name for a cantor in a synagogue.
  • English, from Old English sangere ‘singer’, occupational name for a singer or chorister, or nickname for a cheerful person who was always singing.
  • The Sangers of MA are descended from Richard Sanger, who settled as a blacksmith in Sudbury, MA, in 1646.

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