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    The surname Dager

    A Catalan place surname, carried by 594 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex D260

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dager is more common than 76.9% of them.

    Origin

    Catalan origin

    * As a Catalan surname, variant of Daguer, from the noun daguer (“knifesmith”). * As a Hispanic (Spanish) surname, variant of Basque (Gipuzkoa) Daguer, a variant of French Daguerre, a habitational name from de + Aguerre, a place in Béarn, itself from Basque. See Aguirre.

    Dager is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 39 Catalan surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 594 people named Dager in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 519,774 Americans. That is up 9.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 542.

    #37,492
    rank among US surnames
    594
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9.6%
    change since 2000 (was #38,395)

    Who is named Dager

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    74% of people named Dager identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 74%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 23%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
    • Two or more races 1.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Dager

    Dager has the Soundex code D260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D260.

    Other Catalan surnames

    All 39 Catalan surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Dager come from?
    * As a Catalan surname, variant of Daguer, from the noun daguer (“knifesmith”). * As a Hispanic (Spanish) surname, variant of Basque (Gipuzkoa) Daguer, a variant of French Daguerre, a habitational name from de + Aguerre, a place in Béarn, itself from Basque. See Aguirre.
    How common is the surname Dager?
    594 people in the United States had the surname Dager in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 519,774 Americans. It ranked 37,492nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Dager?
    In the 2010 Census, 74% of people named Dager identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Dager?
    Dager is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Dager getting more or less common?
    More common. 542 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 594 in 2010, up 9.6%.