only serious answers please!
2006-08-01 12:46:06 · 10 answers · asked by egger 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
god there's no need to be mean about it. what's wrong with it? ok I know it is not that common but tis a good name!
2006-08-01 12:51:18 · update #1
Nadia: this forum is a place for people to share knowledge that's why its not ridiculous I asked! I wouldn't expect you to know though, you sound like a idiot. actually that's unfair on idiots
2006-08-01 12:53:50 · update #2
Occupational nickname for an official who carried a staff of office, from Middle English wag(gen) ‘to brandish or shake’ + staff ‘staff’, ‘rod’.
Obscene nickname for a medieval ‘flasher’, one who brandished his ‘staff’ publicly.
2006-08-01 12:53:05 · answer #1 · answered by pynkbyrd 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
pynkbyrd was first with the same answer
found on ancestry.com:
most Wagstaff came to the US 1850-1890, mostly from England
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
2006-08-01 12:55:11 · answer #2 · answered by emerald_trout 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are two theories:
1) From the German (Austrian) word waggers meaning minature person later adapted to "little hitler".
2) From the Finnish word meaning suspicious name changing antics, i.e. someone of an untrusting, or perhaps hurtful nature.
2006-08-02 05:55:12 · answer #3 · answered by Natatters 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possibly the meaning lies from within the person asking.
A common name,technical letter,acrobat, a
combination of letters that form a word.
Bottom line is what you as a person want it to mean. Nothing more, nothing less.
2006-08-01 13:01:25 · answer #4 · answered by harry_pegg 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
means wag a staff
2006-08-01 12:49:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's my son's teachers name. I'll have to ask him.
2006-08-01 12:50:45 · answer #6 · answered by Jen G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.pattywagstaff.com/
airplane acrobat
2006-08-01 12:51:56 · answer #7 · answered by chicagoboars 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do.
2006-08-01 12:50:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
means loserhead...OH you said SERIOUS answers. well how the hell would we know?
2006-08-01 12:50:12 · answer #9 · answered by Rockstar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol wagstaff
2006-08-01 12:48:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋