Family name origins & meanings
- English : variant of Seager.
- Dutch (de Sager), and North German : occupational name from Dutch, Low German sager ‘sawyer’.
- French : from the Germanic personal name Sagher, composed of the elements sag- (an element related to Gothic and Old High German words meaning ‘quarrel’, ‘law-suit’) + hari, heri ‘army’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from an agent derivative of German sagen ‘to say’.