Gedge Family History
Gedge Name Meaning
either from Middle English gig(ge) *jig(ge) gegge ‘silly fellow’ or from Middle English *kegge kigge ‘cheerful pleasant agreeable merry’ with voicing of the initial consonant in which case it is a variant of Kedge . The two words may have been confused. The spelling Gegge can represent either of two pronunciations Gedge or Geg.variant of Gage (or vice versa). Compare Willm.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016