Family name origins & meanings
- North German : nickname for an indecisive person, from Middle Low German wage ‘undecided’, ‘vaccilating’.
- German : (Wäge): variant of Wah.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name from German Waage ‘scales’.
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