Augér is used as a family name or surname in many languages. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Augér
No. of characters: 6
Origin: Unknown
Meaning: As per Archaeologia, Auger, Aucher is a Norman name, whence Fitz-Aucher; also a corruption of Alsager, a place in Cheshire. But many researcher believe it to be a derivative of names Algar, Elgar or Alger. In Doomesday Algar was the name of a bishop of the E. Angles. Algar is contracted from the old name Aelgar, from aelf-gur, which might variously translate, very helping, very strong, a help in war.

How popular is Augér?

Despite the fact that the number of Auger bearers increased by 4.91721 per cent in 2010 US census to 4182 since 2000, the surname slipped by 213 spots and ranked at 7911. The last name was found in around 14 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 94.6 95.41
Hispanic or Latino 2.22 1.28
Others 1.22 1.1
Black 0.96 1.23
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander
0.62 0.6
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.38 0.38

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Auger
 Auger is a surname, derived the name of anyone adalgari Germanic origin, derived from the root meaning adal noble and gari which means spear, spear it is probably originally a nickname warrior.

Augér Namesakes

  • In 2010, Gwyn Auger portrayed the role of Decomposing Arm in horror, sci-fi flick The Devil's Window.

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