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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (East Anglia) : nickname from Middle English wigge ‘beetle’, ‘bug’.
  • English (East Anglia) : metonymic occupational name for a maker of fancy breads baked in rounds and then divided up into wedge-shaped slices, Middle English wigge, from Middle Dutch wigge ‘wedge(-shaped cake)’.

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