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The vogt Surname

vogt Name Meaning and History

German: occupational name for a bailiff, farm manager, or other person with supervisory authority, Middle High German voget, Late Latin vocatus, from Latin advocatus, past participle of advocare ‘to call upon (to help)’. The term originally denoted someone who appeared before a court on behalf of some party not permitted to make direct representations, often an ecclesiastical body which was not supposed to have any dealings with temporal authorities.

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

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

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Distribution of vogt Families in the US in 1920
Number of vogt families
 236-470
 79-235		 1-78
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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