Hager
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hager 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: from ME haggen ‘to cut, chop’; metonymic for a woodcutter; first attested Thoraas Hager 1221 AssSa.
- 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 ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 364 ●
- 1 in 8.8K ◐
across 16 countries
recorded for this name
210K records
Official registry-verified
Switzerland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Häger in SE Sweden, FI Finland and Haeger in ES Spain.
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●
from ME haggen ‘to cut, chop’; metonymic for a woodcutter; first attested Thoraas Hager 1221 AssSa
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 21,106 | 171K rec. | 1 in 16K | 21K | Hager | 364 |
| DE Germany | #597 | 14,874 | 13K rec. | — | listed | Hager | 144 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 6,596 | 6.6K rec. | — | — | Hager | 72 |
| CA Canada | — | 3,410 | 3.4K rec. | — | 1 | Hager | 77 |
| AT Austria | #112 | 2,695 | 1.6K rec. | — | 20 | Hager | 96 |
| AU Australia | — | 2,345 | 2.3K rec. | — | — | Hager | 61 |
| IT Italy | — | 1,304 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Hager | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 955△ | 288 rec. | 1 in 8.8K | 955 | Hager | 37 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 734 | 0 rec. | 1 in 15K | 736 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 701 | 427 rec. | 1 in 15K | 701 | Häger | 39 |
| RU Russia | — | 475 | 530 rec. | — | — | Hager | 10 |
| SG Singapore | — | 360 | 382 rec. | — | — | Hager | 3 |
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●
- English184K77%
- German21K9%
- 6.1K3%
- Spanish5.9K2%
- French4.2K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 183,799 | 77% |
| German | 21,324 | 9% |
| 6,096 | 3% | |
| Spanish | 5,912 | 2% |
| French | 4,234 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Hager is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Toponymic surname from Hag/Hagen; in the south usually from Hag or Hagen, elsewhere also from settlement names; count not given.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Toponymic surname from a habitat/clearing name based on Hagen/Hag; treated in the atlas as a settlement-name derivative.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Toponymic surname from a settlement name or habitation feature (Hag); bearers: 3418+136.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
from a Germanic personal name, Hadugar, composed of the elements hadu- ‘combat’, ‘strife’ + gari, from garwa ‘ready’, ‘eager’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
occupational name for a woodcutter, from an agent derivative of Middle English haggen ‘to cut or chop’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 11 |
| 2000 | 11 |
| 2001 | 10 |
| 2002 | 13 |
| 2003 | 14 |
| 2004 | 13 |
| 2005 | 17 |
| 2006 | 16 |
| 2007 | 15 |
| 2008 | 16 |
| 2009 | 19 |
| 2010 | 24 |
| 2011 | 24 |
| 2012 | 27 |
| 2013 | 28 |
| 2014 | 32 |
| 2015 | 33 |
| 2016 | 39 |
| 2017 | 45 |
| 2018 | 46 |
| 2019 | 50 |
| 2020 | 54 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Kurt Hagerb. 1912DEEast German politician (1912–1998)
- Leopold Hagerb. 1935ATAustrian conductor
- Kirsten Hagerb. 1952DEGerman film producer
- Mark Hagerb. 1964AUfield hockey player
- Axel Hagerb. 1969DEvolleyball player
- Jenna Hagerb. 1981USAmerican journalist, author, and television personality
- Jake Hagerb. 1982USFormer american professional wrestler and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
- Kristen Hagerb. 1984CACanadian actress
- Patrick Hagerb. 1988DEGerman ice hockey player
- Cuebrickb. 1988DEnot in their usual nameGerman DJ and dance music producer
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 47 sources across 27 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 · 127 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hager?
- We estimate roughly 25 thousand people bear Hager (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hager have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 21 thousand people bear Hager in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled hager.
- How common is Hager compared with other names?
- In Austria, Hager is the 112th most common surname of 115,639 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Hager mean?
- Recorded meaning: from ME haggen ‘to cut, chop’; metonymic for a woodcutter; first attested Thoraas Hager 1221 AssSa
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About this data
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, “Hager” — the 112th most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.