Family name origins & meanings
- Polish : from Middle High German māge ‘blood relative’ (literally ‘belly’).
- Possibly also a Polish nickname from a derivative of the dialect word magać ‘to wave’.
- Romanian (Magǎ) : from Hungarian mag ‘seed’.
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