Does anyone know the meaning of my last name or its origins? Fladger?

Question

Does anyone know the meaning of my last name or its origins? Fladger?

Answer 1

Hi,

The only common thread for this name I'm finding on the internet is that it seemed to be very common in South Carolina.

Answer 2

I did find some Fladgers in the English census of 1851.

The earliest Fladgers I found in the American census all seem to have been born here as well as their parents.

It could be from a very early English Immigrant family. There is one in the 1790 census, living in SC.

I could not find a meaning anywhere

Answer 3

Nearest I could find is Flager, could be a variant !

Flager    

Last name origin & meaning:

Americanized spelling of German Pfleger.

Pfleger  

Last name origin & meaning:

German: status name for a legal guardian of a minor, from an agent derivative of Middle High German pflegen ‘to supervise or administrate’.

Or

Flad

Last name origins & meanings:

German: from Middle High German vlade ‘thin (sheet) cake’; probably a metonymic occupational name for a baker.

German: in southern Germany, a topographic name from Flad(e) ‘reed’, ‘sedge’.

German: variant of Flath

Flath    

Last name origins & meanings:

North German: habitational name from a place or field named from Middle Low German flad ‘flowing water in a bog’.

German: nickname from Middle High German vlāt ‘cleanliness’, ‘neatness’, ‘beauty’, or from a personal name derived from this word.