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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : perhaps a respelling of North German Voges, a variant of Fochezer, an occupational name for a baker (of cakes), from Late Latin focatia (Italian focaccia) ‘(kind of) cake’, ‘(kind of) white bread’.

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