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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (usually Wäscher) : occupational name for a washer, from an agent derivative of Middle High German waschen, weschen ‘to wash’. Numerous trades involved washing processes (see Washer) and the name may relate to any of these.

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