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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Middle English want ‘mole’, hence a nickname, perhaps for a short-sighted person.
  • English : topographic name for someone who lived at a crossroad, a dialect form of Went.
  • Dutch : variant of Wand.

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