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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a maker of winnowing baskets, from Middle High German wanne ‘winnowing basket’ + macher ‘maker’. The wanne was a kind of tub-shaped basket or trough (alternatively a fan), used to separate grain from chaff.

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