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cage Name Meaning and History

  1. Reduced form of Irish McCage, a variant of McCaig.
  2. English (East Anglia): from Middle English, Old French cage ‘cage’, ‘enclosure’ (Latin cavea ‘container’, ‘cave’), hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker and seller of small cages for animals or birds, or a keeper of the large public cage in which petty criminals were confined for short periods of imprisonment.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The cage name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the cage family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of cage Families in the US in 1920
Number of cage families
 54-105
 19-53		 1-18
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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