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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Träger) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Träger, Yiddish treger, agent derivatives of Middle High German tragen ‘to carry’, hence an occupational name for someone who carried a load, a peddler or porter, or, in the case of the German name, a legal guardian or guarantor.

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