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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Variant spelling of German and Jewish Wachs.
  • English : metonymic occupational name for a seller or gatherer of beeswax, Middle English wax (from Old English weax). In the Middle Ages wax was an important commodity, used among other things for making candles.

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