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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone who lived by a water meadow, from Middle High German wase ‘water meadow’, ‘pasture’ + -er, suffix denoting an inhabitant. Compare Wasmer.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Wasser.

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