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Surname Etymology and Meaning of ARMIGER

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English: status name for a squire, from Latin armiger ‘bearer of arms or armor’ (from armas gerere ‘to bear arms’), which acquired the specialist sense ‘squire’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)