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cage Name Meaning and History
- Reduced form of Irish McCage, a variant of McCaig.
- 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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