Family name origins & meanings
- English : from Middle English bagge ‘bag’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of bags and sacks of various kinds, including wallets and purses.
- English : from the Germanic personal name Bac(c)o, Bahho (see Bacon 1).
- Swedish : nickname or soldier’s name from Swedish bagge ‘ram’.
- Danish : from a personal name of uncertain derivation.