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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Scandinavian : Wagon

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Dutch : from Middle High German wāge, Middle Dutch waghe ‘scales’, hence a metonymic occupational name for an official responsible for weighing produce, especially produce offered as rent in kind, or else for checking weights and measures used by merchants.
  • Norwegian : variant of Voge.

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