Frequency: (151)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. North German: nickname for an indecisive person, from Middle Low German wage ‘undecided’, ‘vaccilating’.
2. German: (Wäge): variant of Wah.
3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name from German Waage ‘scales’.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
