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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a painter or plasterer, from an agent derivative of Middle High German wīzen ‘to make white’, ‘to whitewash’.
  • German : variant of Weiser.
  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for someone with white hair or an exceptionally pale complexion, from an inflected form of Middle High German wīz ‘white’, German weiss.

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