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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : nickname from Middle High German zenger, zanger ‘cheeky’, ‘bold’, ‘vivacious’.
  • John Peter Zenger (1697–1746), printer, came to America from the Palatinate in Germany in 1710.

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