Names

From Spanish vega meaning “meadow, plain”, of Basque origin.

Variant of Vásquez.

Derived from the given name Vávra, a diminutive of Vavřinec.

Variant of Vaughan.

From Welsh bychan meaning “little”. It was a descriptive name to distinguish father from son.

Means “son of Vasyl”.

Derived from the given name Vasyl.

Variant of Vastag.

From a nickname meaning “stout, thick” in Hungarian.

Derived from Hungarian vas meaning “iron”, referring to a worker in iron, a miner of iron ore or a vendor of iron goods. Alternatively, from the same root word, it may have been a nickname referring to one with a distinctively strong constitution.