Sagar (name)


Sagar is a surname and given name of multiple origins.
In Sanskrit, sāgara means Ocean. In India, Sagar is very common name and surname.

Origins

Anglo-Saxon

Sagar is a patronymic Anglo-Saxon name. Most, if not all, people of the Anglo-Saxon period of England with this surname descend from a man known as Sagar. The name most likely derives from the diphthongal Anglo-Saxon word ‘Sægar’, meaning ‘sea-spear’. Presumably it denotes a maritime warrior of the type that either commenced invasions of Britain in the fifth century or were invited as mercenaries in the political and military vacuum created with the final departure of Roman troops. Spelling variations include: Sager, Seegar, Seager, Sigar, Segar, Seger, Saker, Sakar, and many more.
In Anglo-Saxon England, the name was found in several areas, but predominantly in the northern areas of England which were part of the Angle Kingdom of Northumbria. .
The Domesday Book records a man named Sagar as a Saxon landowner in Devon in 1086. It also records a man called Segarus, no less a Latinised version of the name, holding land in Essex at around the same time. By far the largest concentration of the surname Sagar however is found within a 50 km radius in the Lancashire/Yorkshire border area. Old church birth records show relatively moderate numbers of persons with the surname Sagar being born in towns such as Bradford, Halifax and Askrigg in West Yorkshire.
From the 17th century onwards, records show persons with the surname Sagar or similar migrating from Britain or Europe to various parts of the world including North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Kenya and Rhodesia.

India

Sagar in Hindi means ocean. Sagar is a very common name in India for boys.and also a surname using by various community.
Sagar's Indian origins may come from the Sagar caste, which is a Hindu caste and Punjabi Khatri found in the state of Gujarat and Northern India.

Persian

The name ساغر meaning cup, goblet, bowl is used by Persian and Urdu speaking people in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc.

List of people

Notable people with the name include:

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