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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Wachsmann) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a gatherer or seller of beeswax, a variant of Wachs, with the addition of the Middle High German and Yiddish suffix man ‘man’.

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