Last name: LEDGER
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LEDGER : This last name is indexed 28,052 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
LEDGER : 1: English: from a Norman personal name Leodegar Old French Legier of ancient Germanic origin (see Leger 1).2: English: metonymic occupational name from Middle English legger ‘one who lays stone a mason’ a derivative of Old English lecgan ‘to lay’.3: Americanized form of French Leger 1.
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