Family name origins & meanings
- North German : metonymic occupational name for a grower of wheat, Middle Low German weite.
- German : metonymic occupational name for a fisherman who used a particular kind of net, Middle High German weit.
- German : topographic name or a metonymic occupational name for a dyer, from Middle High German weit ‘woad’, a plant which yields a blue dye.
- Dutch : from Weith, a variant of the personal name Weit.