De-Anglicisation of Names

[gilmore]

I wasn't trying to push it, but did. You just seem to know something I have wondered for several years, but have never been able to find anyone who could help.

I appologize again.


BTW, if interested, my actual name is pronounced Wa-long A-J-eh-s, JUST like the pay. Several of us are known as "Wage," as am my father (and I), so I am "Son of Wage" de-anglicized to MacWage!

Here is an interesting link to a surname profiler that shows the geographical distribution of surnames in two censuses of England, Scotland and Wales in the years 1881 and 1998. http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/Surnames.aspx

I ran Wage but found nothing. There must have been at least 100 individuals with a surname in the 1998 Electoral Register for results. The profiler gave the name Wager instead. In 1881 it was most common in southeast England, near the Welsh border and in the Midlands (I think. My British geography isn't the best.)

"Latta" is shown to have been most common in 1881 a bit north of the border, around Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Of course, the only way to really know the origin of a name is through genealogical research, one generation at a time, starting with one's parents and working backward.