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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place so named in Derbyshire. The first element of the place name is either the Old English personal name Bacga or an unattested Old English word, bagga, for a ‘bag-shaped’ animal (probably the badger); the second is Old English sceaga ‘copse’.

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