Given name & surname · also Czech
Jagr
Jagr is a surname from Czech, ultimately from Old High German.
Original CzechJágr
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Jagr comes from Czech, and ultimately from Old High German.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Jagr as a surname developed from Jäger.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1996. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jagr through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 25
- 25 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2002. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2001.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jagr’s family of names
In English usage, Jagr as a surname developed from the German form Jäger. In English usage, Jagr as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Jágr. In English usage, Jagr as a surname was borrowed from the Czech form Jágr.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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