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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : metronymic from Megg, a reduced form of the personal name Margaret (see Margeson).
  • Vincent Meggs (c.1583–1658) came to Weymouth, MA, from East Devon, England, in or before 1639.

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