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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : nickname for an indecisive person, from Middle Low German wage ‘undecided’, ‘vaccilating’.
  • German : (Wäge): variant of Wah.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name from German Waage ‘scales’.

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