Sagar (name)


In Sanskrit, sāgara means "sea." In India and Nepal and
Bangladesh, Sagar is a very common name and surname.

Origins

Anglo-Saxon

Sagar is a patronymic Old English 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 Old English word Sægar "sea-spear." Presumably it denotes a maritime warrior of the type who 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.
In Anglo-Saxon England, the name was found in several regions, 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, a Latinised version of the name, holding land in Essex at around the same time. By far the largest concentration of men with 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, Gujarati, Bengali and Marathi means ocean. Sagar is a very common first name in India for boys and also a surname used by various communities.

Nepal

Sagar is very common name across Nepal and generally referred to either ocean or sky. Even meany locations and areas have been named after it. E.g. 'Sagarmatha'. Sagarmāthā Zone, which includes mountain districts of the Himalayas and the world's highest peak Mount Everest.

Persian

The name ساغر meaning cup, goblet, wine 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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