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The gage Surname

gage Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from Middle English, Old French ga(u)ge ‘measure’, probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for an assayer, an official who was in charge of checking weights and measures.
  2. English and French: from Middle English, Old French gage ‘pledge’, ‘surety’ (against which money was lent), and therefore a metonymic occupational name for a moneylender or usurer.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of gage Families in the US in 1920
Number of gage families
 241-480
 81-240		 1-80
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