Alger Family History
Alger Name Meaning
English: from one or more Middle English personal names
variously written Alger, Algar, Alcher,
Aucher, etc. These represent a falling together of at least
three different Continental Germanic and Old English names:
Adalgar ‘noble spear’ (Old English Æ{dh}elgar),
Albgar ‘elf spear’ (Old English Ælfgar), and
Aldgar ‘old spear’ (Old English (E)aldgar). The
Continental Germanic forms were brought to England from France by the
Normans. Compare the French cognate Auger. In Norfolk and
northern England, the source is probably the Old Norse name
Álfgeirr ‘elf spear’. The modern English surname is found
mainly in East Anglia.German: from a reduced form of the Germanic
personal name Adalgar (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Alger
Name Distribution of Alger Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Alger families
 76 - 150  26 - 75 |
 1 - 25  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Alger last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Alger Family Origin
Alger Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Alger Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Alger census records
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Military Service by Alger
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