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Last name origins & meanings:

1. English: topographic name for someone who lived ‘at the gate’, i.e. one of the gates of a medieval city. However, in northern counties, Middle English gate (from Old Norse gata) also meant ‘street’, and in some instances the surname may derive from this sense.
2. Southern Italian: from the Greek personal name Agathē meaning ‘virtuous’, ‘honest’.
3. Indian (Maharashtra); pronounced as ag-tay: Hindu (Brahman) name, from Marathi ag̣te ‘live coal’ (from Sanskrit agni ‘fire’).
4. Thomas Agate, a native of Shipley in Yorkshire, settled in Sparta, NY, in the 1790s.

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