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Praeger

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Präger) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a minter, from an agent derivative of Middle High German præch(en), bræchen, German prägen ‘to coin or mint’.
  • Jewish : variant of Prager 1.

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