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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a spicer, from Yiddish gevirts ‘spice’ (Middle High German, Old High German (ge)würz ‘herb’, ‘plant’, ‘root’).

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