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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (western Ashkenazic) : habitational name from a place in Hesse, on the Eder river, probably named from Old High German wald ‘wood’, ‘forest’ + ecka, egga ‘corner’, ‘nook’.

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