American Family Name Origins:
Hagemeyer
Frequency: (297)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: distinguishing name for the tenant farmer (see Meyer) of a farm by an enclosure, from Middle Low German hac ‘hedge’, ‘enclosure’, dative hage.
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