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The wagstaff Surname

wagstaff Name Meaning and History

  1. occupational nickname for an official who carried a staff of office, from Middle English wag(gen) ‘to brandish or shake’ + staff ‘staff’, ‘rod’.
  2. obscene nickname for a medieval ‘flasher’, one who brandished his ‘staff’ publicly.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of wagstaff Families in the US in 1920
Number of wagstaff families
 28-54
 10-27		 1-9
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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