Surname
Wagstaff
“to move up and down”
Wagstaff is a surname from Middle English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Wagstaff goes back to Middle English waggen, meaning “to move up and down.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Middle English waggen (“to move up and down”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wagstaff’s family of names
In English usage, Wagstaff as a surname has a related form in WAGSTER.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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