Hãger

given name · Latin script

Hãger is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a Germanic personal name, Hadugar, composed of the elements hadu- ‘combat’, ‘strife’ + gari, from garwa ‘ready’, ‘eager’.

  • CHSwitzerland1 in 8.8K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 15K
  • USUnited States1 in 16K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

21,106 people, 2010

Record sources
83 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 8.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hager in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

from a Germanic personal name, Hadugar, composed of the elements hadu- ‘combat’, ‘strife’ + gari, from garwa ‘ready’, ‘eager’.

Cited for this meaning 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Hãger counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Hãger is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States21,1061 in 16K21KHager69
CH Switzerland9551 in 8.8K955—2
SE Sweden7011 in 15K701—10
NL Netherlands2871 in 60K287—8
BR Brazil2351 in 901K235——
FI Finland2261 in 25K226——
NO Norway1121 in 49K112—1

21,106 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Hãger is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname56 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Swedish

    Also written Hager, Haeger, Häger, Heger, เฮเกอร์

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Hãger under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Hãger mean, and where does it come from?
from a Germanic personal name, Hadugar, composed of the elements hadu- ‘combat’, ‘strife’ + gari, from garwa ‘ready’, ‘eager’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
In which country does Hãger have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Hãger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hager.
Where is Hãger most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hãger is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 8.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Hãger?
In the United States, the national register counted 21,106 people named Hãger in 2010, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hãger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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