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Axe

- 38% this year

Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

Old German : Father of peace

Boy name variations

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Family name origins & meanings

English : evidently a metonymic occupational name for a woodman. A further possible origin is from the French place name element Ax (etymologically identical to Aix), from Latin aquis (dative or ablative plural) ‘near the waters’, denoting a spa.
In some cases perhaps an altered form of German Axt.
A George Axe is recorded in VA in 1679.