The Zagar Last Name

Zagar began as a Dutch family name. Elsdon Smith's dictionary of American family names explains it as “one who cut timber into boards, a sawyer”. Trade names like this once told neighbours apart by their work. Related forms include Zager.

In the 2010 US Census, 803 Americans gave Zagar as their last name (rank 29,422). It sits within the 50,000 most common last names in the country. French birth records list 276 children named Zagar between 1891 and 2000.

Sharing the Zagar name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families. Want more than a summary? See the Zagar family name pack.