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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a field name composed of Middle High German wīz ‘white’ + feld ‘open country’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental compound of German weiss ‘white’ + Feld ‘field’.

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