Family name origins & meanings
- Portuguese and Galician : habitational name from any of the several places called Lage in Galicia and Portugal, named with lage, laxe ‘flat rock or slab of stone’, or a topographic name for someone who lived by such a rock.
- French : habitational name from any of a number of places named L’Age, age being a regional variant of French haie ‘hedge’.
- Danish : from the personal name Laghi, Old Norse Lage (see Lageson).
- North German, Dutch, and Danish : habitational name from any of several places named Lage or Laage, all in northern Germany. The name denotes a free, open space between wooded areas.