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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of German Schweigert or Zweigert, an occupational name for a gardener or tender of fruit trees or vines, from an agent derivative of Middle High German zwīgen ‘to graft’, ‘to plant’. Compare Sweigart.

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