Hunger Family History
- Hunger Name Meaning
- German and Dutch: from a Germanic personal name, Hun(e)ger, composed of the elements hun ‘bear cub’ + ger, gar ‘spear’. German: ethnic name from Ungar, Unger ‘Hungarian’. German: from Middle High German hunger ‘hunger’; a nickname for a thin or undernourished person, or sometimes a topographic name from a piece of land named with this word with reference to the infertility of the soil. English: probably from an Old English personal name, Hungar.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 64,199 Historical Documents with Hunger on Ancestry
- 35,343 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 8,881 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,261 Military Records
- 2,178 Immigration Records
- 12,536 Member Trees
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Number of Hunger families
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 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hunger families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hunger census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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