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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : patronymic from Egge.
  • Swiss German : possibly of the same origin as 1, but otherwise a topographic name, a derivative of Eck 1.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of about 20 farms, notably in Trøndelag, so named with the definite singular form of egg (see Egge).

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