Surname Spotlight: Pfleger

Genealogists group Pfleger with Pflueger. Its meaning, shared with Pflueger, is “One who plowed the fields”.

A variant of Pflueger

Records show Pfleger as one of the forms Pflueger took over time. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Pfleger with 922 bearers, at rank 26,471. 933 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Pfleger name at birth.

Heraldry and the Pfleger name

Arms linked to Pflueger and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

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