Haeger

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Haeger is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: see Hager.

rarermore common
  • ATAustria1 in 2.4K◐
  • DEGermany1 in 7.5K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 8.8K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈25K ●

across 16 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
364 ●

210K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 8.8K ◐

Switzerland

Spellings & scripts●

HagerLatin · English●184K records
ฮาเกอรThai · Thai●1 records
האגערHebrew · Yiddish●0 records

Locally spelled Hager in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 18 more and Häger in SE Sweden, FI Finland.

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

Meaning & origin●

see Hager.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Haeger is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—21,106171K rec.1 in 16K21KHager364
DE Germany#59714,87413K rec.—listedHager144
GB United Kingdom—6,5966.6K rec.——Hager72
CA Canada—3,4103.4K rec.—1Hager77
AT Austria#1122,6951.6K rec.—20Hager96
AU Australia—2,3452.3K rec.——Hager61
IT Italy—1,3041.4K rec.——Hager12
CH Switzerland—955△288 rec.1 in 8.8K955Hager37
CZ Czechia—7340 rec.1 in 15K736—1
SE Sweden—701427 rec.1 in 15K701Häger39
RU Russia—475530 rec.——Hager10
SG Singapore—360382 rec.——Hager3

Roughly 21K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 16K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • English5.8K59%
  • German2K20%
  • Spanish1.1K11%
  • French1832%
  • 1141%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English5,78059%
German1,98720%
Spanish1,10511%
French1832%
1141%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

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

  • Norwegian Bokmål surname93 records spelled Haeger7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Sweden, Denmark

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Hæger

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Åke Häger, b. 1897Barbara Haeger, b. 1919Knut H. M. Haeger, b. 1925Lilavati Häger, b. 1925Olle Häger, b. 1935Joachim Häger, b. 1944Ullrich Häger, b. 1945Welf Haeger, b. 1961Charlie Haeger, b. 1983Simon Häger, b. 2000
  • Åke Hägerb. 1897SEnot in their usual namegymnast (1897–1968)
  • Barbara Haegerb. 1919DEGerman sculptor (1919-2004)
  • Knut H. M. Haegerb. 1925SESwedish cardiac surgeon
  • Lilavati Hägerb. 1925SEnot in their usual nameSwedish dancer (1925-2002)
  • Olle Hägerb. 1935SEnot in their usual nameSwedish documentary film, author and historian (1935-2014)
  • Joachim Hägerb. 1944DEnot in their usual nameGerman judge (1944-2008)
  • Ullrich Hägerb. 1945DEnot in their usual nameGerman chemist and philatelist (1910-1980)
  • Welf Haegerb. 1961DEGerman cabaret artist and lawyer
  • Charlie Haegerb. 1983USAmerican baseball player
  • Simon Hägerb. 2000FInot in their usual nameFinnish actor (born before 2000)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Haeger
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000557#37,591
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020518#44,611
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010489#44,034
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—110#6,706
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—38#31,272
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19617—
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20075#77,699
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19715—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19215—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19014—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20243#154,370
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19913—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 20 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Haeger?
We estimate roughly 25 thousand people bear Haeger (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
In which country does Haeger have the most bearers?
We estimate about 21 thousand people bear Haeger in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled hager.
How common is Haeger compared with other names?
In Austria, Haeger is the 112th most common surname of 115,639 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Haeger mean?
Recorded meaning: see Hager.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Haeger” — the 112th most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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