Frequency: (753)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: topographic name from Middle English hanger, hangre ‘wood on a steep hillside’, or habitational name from a place named with this word, as for example Hanger in Netley Marsh, Hampshire.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
