Family name origins & meanings
- German : nickname for a big person, from Middle Low German deger ‘big’, ‘tall’.
- French : habitational name, with fused preposition d(e) ‘from’, for someone from a place named Ger, of which there are examples in Manche and Pyrénées. The place name is believed to derive from a pre-Indo-European element gar, meaning ‘rock’, ‘stone’.