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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from any of several places named Wehr, in Baden-Württemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, and the Rhineland Palatinate.
  • German : occupational name for a militia member, from Middle High German wer(e)n ‘to defend’.

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