Last Name ALGER

Summary/Contribute


Meaning The son of Algar or Alfgar. In its early found there both as a personal and a surname. Algar, although forgotten now, was popular in its day and generation.
Origin English, Dutch, French

Rank 5,299 (2000 US census) 4,235 (1990 US census)
Count 6,047 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 94.29%, or 5702 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 0.48%, or 29 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.99%, or 60 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.58%, or 35 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.67%, or 101 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.98%, or 120 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Shortest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Longest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...

Ukrainian middle names

 Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

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