Badger Family History
Badger Name Meaning
habitational name from a place in
Shropshire named Badger, probably from an unattested Old English
personal name Bæcg + Old English ofer ‘ridge’.occupational name for a maker of bags (see Bagge 1) or for
a peddler who carried his wares about with him in a bag. It is
unlikely that the surname has anything to do with the animal (see
Brock 2), which was not known by this name until the 16th
century.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Badger Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Badger families
 124 - 246  42 - 123 |
 1 - 41  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Badger families
|
13 - 24 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Badger Family Origin
Badger Emigration Information (US)
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Badger Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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