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Pæga may have been an Anglo-Saxon name, but it's origin must be either Latin (or a Romanized Germanic name) or British. This is unusual, but not unknown in Saxon/Anglian territory. British names survived in land-owning families into the 8th C, and only a few (e.e. Cyneric, Cynebil) were Anglicized, and not every individual found in Old English records were Anglo-Saxon - many professionals (mainly clerics) from the continent worked for long periods in the British Isles and vice versa. It's possible that Pǽga is a Romanized pronunciation (with P for B) of an Old English name such as Bǽga (ring, crown), but more likely the two individuals so named were not Anglo-Saxon, but clerics from the continent.