Surname Spotlight: Laje

Spellings drift, and Laje is where Lage drifted for some families. The family name meaning is “Flat stone”, the same as for Lage. Laje writes “j” in place of the “g” found in Lage, a typical scribal difference. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. The same family of names includes Lajes.

Spain's INE counts 121 residents with Laje as first surname and 124 with it as second. Each Spaniard has two surnames, so the same name is counted once as first and once as second surname.

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