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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for an unpleasant or repulsive person, from an agent noun based on Middle Low German vies ‘disgusting’, Middle High German viez ‘violent’, ‘devil of a man’.
  • German : habitational name for someone from Viesen, near Jerichow, Brandenburg.

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