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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone who lived near a lake or marsh, from Middle High German wāc ‘standing water’, ‘pool’.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of ten or so farmsteads named Våg, mainly in Nordland, from Old Norse vágr ‘bay’, ‘creek’.

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