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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from various farms in southwestern Norway so named, from Old Norse eiki ‘oak’, ‘oak grove’ (see Ege).
  • German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with Egi-, Agi-, from Old High German ecka ‘point (of a sword or lance)’.

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