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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German pet form of a personal name derived from Slavic Vęceslav (see Vanek, Wenzel).
  • German : from a field named with Middle High German wanc ‘bend or turn (in the course of a path or river)’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Wang.

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