Ungerer Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

Ungerer is how some branches of the Unger family came to write their name.

Ungerer adds -er to the root of Unger, a familiar way of forming related surnames. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.

Arms linked to Unger and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Want more than a summary? See the Ungerer family name pack.