Eger Surname
Approximately 15,753 people bear this surname
Eger Surname Definition:
(from a place name) From Eger, a town in western Bohemia. Other forms are Egers and Eiger.
Read More About This SurnameEger Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 6,815 | 1:11,813 | 1,510 |
| Brazil | 3,145 | 1:68,068 | 2,534 |
| United States | 2,936 | 1:123,453 | 13,148 |
| Russia | 896 | 1:160,852 | 18,440 |
| Austria | 260 | 1:32,752 | 5,272 |
| Czechia | 253 | 1:42,030 | 6,962 |
| Canada | 242 | 1:152,255 | 15,495 |
| Uganda | 113 | 1:345,480 | 22,807 |
| France | 108 | 1:615,025 | 80,926 |
| Switzerland | 106 | 1:77,480 | 8,969 |
| Italy | 103 | 1:593,754 | 55,377 |
| Hungary | 81 | 1:121,189 | 11,343 |
| Norway | 81 | 1:63,485 | 9,023 |
| Poland | 57 | 1:666,820 | 57,730 |
| Netherlands | 54 | 1:312,725 | 36,782 |
| Belarus | 53 | 1:179,265 | 23,543 |
| Kazakhstan | 41 | 1:431,280 | 33,089 |
| England | 29 | 1:1,921,312 | 76,208 |
| Sweden | 26 | 1:378,721 | 26,697 |
| Slovenia | 24 | 1:103,653 | 11,747 |
| South Africa | 23 | 1:2,355,552 | 98,611 |
| Australia | 22 | 1:1,227,077 | 66,405 |
| Nicaragua | 22 | 1:273,686 | 2,870 |
| Denmark | 19 | 1:297,090 | 21,940 |
| Thailand | 18 | 1:3,924,352 | 328,346 |
| Iran | 16 | 1:4,798,908 | 119,068 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 16 | 1:373,291 | 30,949 |
| Wales | 16 | 1:193,408 | 12,484 |
| Indonesia | 13 | 1:10,173,015 | 372,576 |
| Peru | 12 | 1:2,648,677 | 28,015 |
| Serbia | 12 | 1:595,412 | 21,526 |
| Kosovo | 12 | 1:155,156 | 6,641 |
| Chile | 11 | 1:1,601,498 | 26,155 |
| Argentina | 10 | 1:4,274,341 | 152,056 |
| Japan | 10 | 1:12,784,429 | 45,945 |
| Uzbekistan | 9 | 1:3,436,571 | 32,268 |
| Taiwan | 8 | 1:2,930,593 | 17,989 |
| Spain | 8 | 1:5,844,004 | 86,878 |
| Belgium | 7 | 1:1,642,378 | 98,400 |
| Costa Rica | 6 | 1:796,678 | 5,462 |
| Israel | 5 | 1:1,711,527 | 84,568 |
| Guatemala | 5 | 1:3,216,534 | 7,141 |
| Malaysia | 5 | 1:5,898,845 | 196,803 |
| Venezuela | 4 | 1:7,551,019 | 53,668 |
| Turkmenistan | 4 | 1:1,372,278 | 6,164 |
| Latvia | 3 | 1:683,349 | 34,074 |
| Slovakia | 3 | 1:1,778,817 | 104,392 |
| Ecuador | 3 | 1:5,301,949 | 30,184 |
| South Korea | 2 | 1:25,620,128 | 4,175 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Transnistria | 1 | 1:474,699 | 17,893 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Armenia | 1 | 1:2,930,180 | 22,770 |
| Abkhazia | 1 | 1:242,865 | 5,354 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Honduras | 1 | 1:8,816,442 | 9,272 |
| Northern Cyprus | 1 | 1:319,011 | 10,202 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 7 | 1:632,838 | 19,259 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 7 | 1:3,482,196 | 89,582 |
| Wales | 5 | 1:313,683 | 10,604 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:3,743,216 | 32,299 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 438 | 1:114,655 | 11,327 |
The alternate forms: Éger (253) are calculated separately.
Eger (290) may also be a first name.
Eger Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
(from a place name) From Eger, a town in western Bohemia. Other forms are Egers and Eiger.
User-submitted Reference
The various ways to spell the name came primarily from where the person resided or settled. The name Egnor originated in Bavaria and meant someone who resided close to the river Eger.
- aew1991Eger Demographics
Eger Religious Adherence
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Religious Adherence
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Eger Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Eger Come From? nationality or country of origin
Eger (Russian: Егерь) occurs in Germany more than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms: Éger. For other potential spellings of Eger click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Eger? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 33,696th most frequently occurring surname on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 462,613 people. The last name Eger occurs predominantly in Europe, where 54 percent of Eger live; 46 percent live in Western Europe and 46 percent live in Germanic Europe. It is also the 518,802nd most commonly occurring forename in the world It is held by 290 people.
The surname is most frequently occurring in Germany, where it is carried by 6,815 people, or 1 in 11,813. In Germany it is most prevalent in: Bavaria, where 27 percent live, Baden-Württemberg, where 23 percent live and Saxony, where 11 percent live. Outside of Germany this surname occurs in 72 countries. It also occurs in Brazil, where 20 percent live and The United States, where 19 percent live.
Eger Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Eger has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the surname expanded 670 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it expanded 414 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it expanded 320 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Eger Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the surname is predominantly Catholic (100%) in Ireland, Orthodox (81%) in Russia and Orthodox (100%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those holding the Eger surname are 15.32% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 62.09% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Eger earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 37.66% more than the national average, earning 476,431 kr per year; in Peru they earn 43.73% less than the national average, earning S/. 10,908 per year; in South Africa they earn 91.68% more than the national average, earning R 455,508 per year; in United States they earn 9.1% more than the national average, earning $47,076 USD per year and in Canada they earn 16.21% more than the national average, earning $57,736 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Eger Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Eger in the Russian language | ||
| Егерь | eger | - |
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Eger Reference & Research
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Eger
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