Wragg Family History

English (West Yorkshire and Derbyshire): from the Old Norse (Old Danish) personal name Wraghi of uncertain origin and meaning. Variant of Ragge from Middle English ragge ‘scrap of cloth, flap (of a garment), rag’ perhaps for someone who wore tattered clothing or clothes ornamented with strips of fabric.

Alternatively, ragge might have been a shortened form of Middle English ragged ‘tattered, shaggy’. Perhaps occasionally a habitational name from Rag Field in Wonersh (Surrey).

The placename probably derives from Middle English ragge ‘moss, lichen’ (Old English ragge, a side-form of ragu).