German: from the Germanic personal name Wolfgang, composed
of wolf ‘wolf’ + ganc ‘going’. From the late 10th
century it became popular in Bavaria and the south as the name of a
saint, Bishop Wolfgang of Regensburg.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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