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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • American, English : Sugar; sweet

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Hungarian (Sugár) : nickname for a well-built person, from sugár ‘tall’, ‘slim’.
  • Translation of German and Jewish Zucker ‘sugar’.
  • English : nickname from the vocabulary word sugar as a term of affection, or possibly an occupational name for a confectioner or dealer in sugar, although there is no evidence for this in English sources.

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