Last name: WAY
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WAY : This last name is indexed 124,958 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WAY : 1: English (mainly southern): topographic name for someone who lived near a road or path from Middle English wei (Old English weg cognate with Old Norse vegr Old High German weg) or a habitational name from some minor place called with this word as for example any of the places called Way or Waye in Devon or Way in Somerset and Kent.2: Chinese: variant of Wei.
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