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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : From the path land

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly southern) : topographic name for someone who lived near a road or path, Old English weg (cognate with Old Norse vegr, Old High German weg), or a habitational name from some minor place named with this word, as for example any of the places called Way or Waye, in Devon.

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