Last name: WEDGE
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Last name frequency
WEDGE : This last name is indexed 15,587 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WEDGE : English: from Middle English weğğe ‘wedge nail coin’ in some undetermined sense perhaps also used as a personal name. Some early spellings may represent Wagg and its Norfolk variant Wegg because -gg- in Middle English can be ambiguous between the hard /g/ and soft /dʒ/ pronunciations.
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